IF YOU GOWhat: “The Moving of Lilla Barton.”When: Thursday-May 25.Where: Cumberland County Playhouse, 221 Tennessee Ave., Crossville, Tenn.Admission: $12-$27.Phone: 931-484-5000.Website: www.ccplayhouse.com.
When an immovable object meets an unstoppable force, something is bound to happen in the comedy that opens Thursday at Cumberland County Playhouse in Crossville, Tenn.
“The Moving of Lilla Barton,” though, is no slapstick fare, said director Donald Fann.
The immovable object is the title character, Lilla Barton, who refuses to move from the rectory of All Saints Episcopal Church in Lowndes, Ala., after the death of her minister husband.
The unstoppable force is the group of people who want her out of the way — including a scheming newspaper editor and a pushy, social-climbing former beauty-queen-turned-real estate mogul — to make way for the new pastor and his family.