‘Hell’s Belles’ held over

Civil War send-up ‘Hell’s Belles’ has two final performances this weekend.

Hell’s Belles, billed as “Southern Gothic at its sassiest,” is being held over for two performances only at Mid-City Theater.

The play, by New Olreans theater troupe Running With Scissors, travels back in time to the Civil War, to the crumbling, dilapidated mansion that houses the French Finishing School for Little Confederate Women. Once a font of gentility and etiquette, it’s now little more than a reform school, chock-full of the bawdiest, cattiest, downright orneriest gals

Into their midst stumbles a seemingly innocent Union soldier (Richard Read), wounded at a nearby battle. He’s taken in and nursed, but what will all those women do with him when he’s well enough to walk again? Will he make it out alive? Will they?