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Essential Theatre Presents 3 New Plays in Rep, 7/8-8/8

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The 12th Annual Essential Theatre FestivalWine and Words Fundraiser, Bringing Atlanta What's New on Stage, Presents Three New Plays in Repertory. The plays open Thursday July 8, 2010 and are running through August 8th at Essential Theatre @ Actors Express, 887 W. Marietta St. [King Plow Arts Center], Atlanta, GA 30318.

Darker Face of the Earth
by Rita Dove, directed by Betty Hart
The Georgia Premiere of a stunning tragic drama by a Pulitzer Prize-winning African-American poet (and former Poet Laureate of the United States). The classic story of Oedipus is re-imagined on a slave plantation in the American South.
Adult situations, with some violence.

Sally and Glen at the Palace
by Peter Hardy, directed by Ellen McQueen
The Georgia Premiere of a comic drama about the growing friendship between two very different college students working together in the lobby of a 1970s movie theatre in a southern university town. Winner of a New Southern Theatre Festival Playwriting Award. VIDEO

Qualities of Starlight
by Gabriel Jason Dean, directed by Peter Hardy
The World Premiere of a twisted family comedy about a successful young astronomer who brings his wife home to the north Georgia mountains and the simple country household in which he grew up. And where his parents are now addicted to crystal meth. Winner of the 2010 Essential Theatre Playwriting Award.
Adult language and onstage drug use.

Certain things are essential....this theatre festival is one of them. Don't miss it!

Tickets: $16-$24. Check online for specific times, dates and prices for each performance. Tickets are always $2 cheaper online with no ticketing fee and parking at Essential Theatre is always free. For more information, please visit www.essentialtheatre.com.





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