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HCP: Welcome to Mitford
Written By: Jenny King | Issue: 2015/04 - April
Highlands Performing Arts Center will host Highlands Cashiers Players’ final production of the 2014-2015 season, “Welcome to Mitford.”
The play by Robert Inman is set in the fictional mountain town of Mitford, North Carolina, and is a composite of many of the novels written by author Jan Karon, who lives and writes in Blowing Rock.
While “Welcome to Mitford” is a two-act play, it involves many vignettes, or scenes, which focus on the lives of the varied personalities that inhabit this typical small village.
Father Tim, the main character in the play, is a bachelor and Episcopal priest in his 60s, the rector of a lively and close-knit mountain congregation. “Welcome to Mitford” involves Father Tim’s personal journey as he takes on the troubled orphaned grandson of the church custodian, falls in love with, and marries, his next door neighbor, and struggles with the possibility of retirement. Depression, personal health, self-worth, and uncertainty about the future all play a part in Father Tim’s journey toward the ultimate realization that whatever happens, “God is in control.”
The show will be directed by HCP board member Donna Cochran, and consists of a cast of over 20 actors with speaking parts. Father Tim is played by David Spivey, and Lee Lyons plays his romantic interest, Cynthia Coppersmith. HCP will introduce new-comer Jordan Powell, who will play Father Tim’s ward, Dooley Barlow. Parishioners Uncle Billy and his wife Miss Rose are Ron Leslie and Samantha Moore, while Virginia Talbot is Miss Sadie and Marsha Shmalo takes the part of Dr. Hopkins.
This beautiful uplifting spring offering opens at PAC Thursday, May 21. “Welcome to Mitford” will be presented at 7:30 P.M. Thursday through Saturday, May 21-23, and May 28-30, with matinees Sunday, May 24, and May 31, at 2:30 P.M. For ticket information, call the Highlands Cashiers Players box office at (828) 526-8084.
