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NEXT UP ON THE MAINSTAGE:

LAKEBOTTOM PROPER

By Topher Payne
Directed by Dewayne Morgan

Tad and Rowena Tuttle reside on the “good side” of Columbus, Georgia’s ritzy “Lakebottom” neighborhood, and are desperate to get their daughter, Portia, accepted by the prestigious Brookstone School. But minutes before the head of the Parents’ Association is scheduled to arrive for drinks, Rowena’s hillbilly mother arrives from Colquitt, a mutant farm animal escapes in the park, and the ransom note is found: Portia’s been kidnapped.

September 9 – October 1, 2011. Friday and Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 5pm

(Sunday, September 25 @ 2pm)
Tickets are $17 - $23.
Buy tickets by phone 404-245-4205 or online by clicking here

Performed at OnStage Atlanta Main Stage. 2597 North Decatur Rd, Decatur, GA 30033

 

 

Cast

Rowena Tuttle: Barbara Cole Uterhardt
Tad Tuttle: Doug Graham
Mrs. Kelley: Cheryl Rookwood
Ethelene: Frankie L. Earle
Oliver: Jeffery Brown
Christi Dunbar-Rhodes: Kate Graham
Arlette Dunbar-Rhodes: Amanda Cucher

 

Crew

Director - DeWayne Morgan

Stage Manager - Jes Harris

Set Designer - Nadia Morgan
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
TOPHER PAYNE is the author of more than a dozen produced works for the stage, including the recent TOKENS OF AFFECTION at Georgia Ensemble Theatre, ABOVE THE FOLD, which won the 2009 Metro Atlanta Theatre Awards for Best Original Work and Best Play of the Year, and THE MEDICINE SHOWDOWN (co-authored with Adam Koplan), which Creative Loafing selected as one of the Best Plays of the Decade.
In 2010, he was named Atlanta’s Best Playwright by The Sunday Paper and readers of Creative Loafing, as well both Best Local Writer and Best Local Actor by readers of The GA Voice. Topher is an artistic associate with Atlanta’s Pinch n’ Ouch Theatre and Onstage Atlanta, as well as Flying Carpet Theatre in New York. He serves as Literary Manager for The Process Theatre, and The Executive Producer of the Atlanta 24-Hour Plays for Working Title Playwrights. His column, DOMESTICALLY DISTURBED, appears in The GA Voice.
Topher’s latest play is currently in development with Pinch n’ Ouch Theatre. In January, he will play David Frost in Peter Morgan’s FROST/NIXON at the Springer Opera House. Topher lives in a little brick house with a husband named Tommy, a beagle named Daisy, and a bunch of imaginary people asking him to tell their stories.

 

ABOUT THE PLAY
The two-act farce LAKEBOTTOM PROPER began as the fifteen-minute play ENTERTAINING LESBIANS, which was workshopped by Process Theatre in 2004. The play premiered in Manhattan later that year, Produced by The Fall Collection under the direction of Rodney Hakim. In 2005, a revised version was produced by Process Theatre as part of the series of Topher Payne’s short plays, BAD MAMA: SCENES OF THE DOMESTICALLY DISTURBED, directed by Lily Yancey Miller. After a reading of that play at the State Theatre of Georgia, The Springer Opera House, Artistic Director Paul Pierce commissioned Topher Payne to expand the story into a full-length set in Columbus, Georgia. The resulting play, LAKEBOTTOM PROPER, closed the Springer’s 2010-2011 mainstage season to capacity audiences. The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer declared, “Topher Payne is a genius!”
Process Theatre is thrilled to complete the journey of the little play that started in our workshops eight years ago, and grew into a masterful, laugh-a-minute comedy guaranteed to delight Atlanta audiences.

 

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