McKinley Tucker in Cocktails with Mimi
The Appomattox Courthouse Theatre presents Cocktails with Mimi in November. In this play, Edie Ralston is engaged to Lester Calthorpe, son of a pompous federal judge. But Edie’s mother, Mimi Ralston, is as determined to break the engagement as Edie is to keep it. So when Mimi hosts a gathering in honor of her daughter’s future in-laws, she plans a few “special surprises” for the occasion – including the old ‘soup in the mother-in-law’s lap routine.’ Edie, who knows her mother too well, rightly fears what might happen if her mother were to meet her in-laws-to-be, so she hires two actors to impersonate them. Which goes well enough…at least, until the real Calthorpes arrive, causing an outbreak of all manner of confusion.
The schedule for this play is posted at the Appomattox Courthouse Theatre Web site, and soon will be posted to Appomattox Calendar as well.
Valerie Daugherty and Tif Rice
Elizabeth Lankford and David Settle
