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Director's Blog
01/15/2012 - Posted by Freddie Ashley
Next Fall has now opened and it is a thrilling moment for the theatre. We are so excited to see this beautiful play brought to life on our stage. The script is so beautiful, insightful and sensitive. Kate Warner has directed the play with the most careful of touches, finding exquisite detail after exquisite detail. And the actors. Wow. It's really an embarrassment of riches. So many moments brought to life with truth, humanity and heart. To see Bill Murphey collapse into Mitchell Anderson's arms is a staggering moment of beauty. Patricia French's careful nuance in the temple scene is a study in how to use subtext as a powerful tool. John Benzinger, as ever, finds so much to love in a character who is conflicted and complicated. Jennifer Levison's openhearted performance is a thing of utter beauty -- so much compassion and humor. Mitchell Anderson and Joe Sykes have such amazing chemistry together onstage; they really plum the complex and interesting details of their characters' relationship and the result is heartbreaking and uplifting all at the same time.
When the right script gets brought to life by the right director with the right group of actors, you end up with something special. It's like gold dust or lightening in a bottle. That's what is happening five shows a week now here at the Express. And I couldn't be prouder of Kate, Mithchell, Joe, Jenny, Patricia, Bill and John.
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Actor's Express
Theatre Company
887 W. Marietta St. Suite J-107, Atlanta, GA 30318
Box Office: 404.607.SHOW(7469)
Phone: 404.875.1606
Fax: 404.875.2791
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