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Essential Theatre Festival
Location: Actor's Express
Actor's Express is pleased to host Essential Theatre's 12th Annual Play Festival in July and August.
The festival, performed in rotating repertory, includes:
THE DARKER FACE OF THE EARTH by Rita Dove, directed by Betty Hart. Regional Premiere. This stunning tragic drama written by a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet (and former Poet Laureate of the United States), takes the Greek legend of Oepidus and re-imagines it on a slave plantation in the American South.
SALLY AND GLEN AT THE PALACE by Peter Hardy, directed by Ellen McQueen. Georgia Pemiere. A funny, heart-breaking story about the growing friendship between two college students working at a movie theatre in the 1970s. Winner of a New Southern Theatre Festival Playwriting Award.
QUALITIES OF STARLIGHT by Gabriel Dean, directed by Peter Hardy. World Premiere. This twisted family comedy accompanies a young astronomer and his wife on a visit to his parents in the North Georgia mountains, where he discovers that they have become addicted to crystal meth. Winner of the 2010 Essential Theatre Playwriting Award.
The festival runs from July 8 through August 8, 2010. Full schedule and ticket information available at Essential Theatre
Essential Theatre Festival Sponsors:
Atlanta Coalition of Performing Arts
Atlanta Cultural Affairs
Fulton County Arts Council
Georgia Council for the Arts
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