Lamb’s Players set to revisit ‘The Trip to Bountiful’

Thirty-five years later, Lamb’s Players Theatre’s Robert Smyth and Deborah Gilmour Smyth are taking another trip to Bountiful. Horton Foote’s 1953 play about an elderly woman fleeing her painful present for the idealized peace of her rural Texas hometown was first produced by Lamb’s Players in 1991, three years before it opened its current home in Coronado. Producing Artistic Director Robert Smyth directed that production, with Jeannette Clift George starring as Foote’s protagonist, Carrie Watts. In that production, Deborah Gilmour Smyth, Lamb’s’ associate artistic director, portrayed Jessie Mae Watts, Carrie’s testy daughter-in-law in the unhappy Houston home...