Lakebottom columbus ga series#

Elaborate plans to salvage the situation are hatched, stiff drinks are poured and wicked barbs are traded.

Lakebottom columbus ga series#

It’s a series of disasters that controlling matriarch and social pillar Cilla Tuttle (Jill Hames) seems to take as a personal affront: she not only has to watch her hopes for a lovely wedding for her son go down the drain, she’s also had to suffer the indignity of ceding control of planning the day to the mother of the bride, the nouveau riche dairy farmer’s wife Eugenia Doverdill (Frankie Earle). The wedding day of Brewster Tuttle (Adam Bailey) and Daisy Doverdill (Amanda Cucher) is approaching, and the entire wedding party and half the guests have fallen ill, while the army is spraying insecticide and threatening to drain the lake where the wedding is scheduled to take place. It’s not the most likely set-up in which to search for comedy gold, but Payne certainly mines it for all its worth. Lakebottom Prime brings us back to 1924 the beautiful and beloved lake has brought on mosquitos, which have brought on malaria. Proper was a contemporary comedy, and Prime is technically its prequel: both are set in the real Victorian-era Columbus neighborhood of Lakebottom, originally designed around Wildwood Lake, which was drained in the mid-1920s due to a malaria pandemic. Like his 2011 play Lakebottom Proper, this newer work was commissioned by the Springer Opera House in Columbus, Georgia, where it had its world premiere last year. Jill Hame, with Adam Baily, is a delight in her role as Cilla.Ītlanta playwright Topher Payne loves his Southern grand dames, and there are no less than three in his new comedy Lakebottom Prime, currently having its Atlanta premiere at OnStage Atlanta through May 17, produced by the independent Process Theatre Company.