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New plays. New
writers. New voices from the South. Now in its eighth year, the New
South Play Festival is Horizon’s unique celebration of plays from, for
and about the contemporary South.
The Festival has
become a much-anticipated event at Horizon – the most fertile, busy and
exciting artistic experience we undertake all year. Horizon’s strives
to be a dynamic leader in contemporary theatre in the Southeast, and
with the New South Festival, Horizon is at the forefront of developing
and showcasing new work by Southern writers about who we are today in
the New South. The Festival has received significant local and national
recognition from the media and funders.
The Atlanta
Journal-Constitution
has hailed the Festival as a “crucible [that] feeds writers’ creative
fires,” and Creative Loafing has touted that it “finds and
defines Southern plays.”
The South we
explore in the Festival is not the one of the past, but the one of today
– in all its diversity and contradiction.
We seek out writers and plays that speak to our urban Southern audiences
and that expand the world’s view of our cosmopolitan South.
“Horizon’s New
South Festival is about expanding the diversity of voices coming out of
the contemporary South,”
says Co-Artistic Director Lisa Adler. “The world thinks of the South in
terms of civil war and civil rights. We who live here experience a
complex place with many perspectives, cultures and people. We hope the
New South Festival and its writers reflect this true new South.”
The 2006 New South Play
Festival includes the events below:
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Ever wonder how a play gets off
the page and onto the stage?
Come be part of the process at our PlayWorks readings!
Horizon's 8th annual PlayWorks celebrates today's voices speaking from, for
and about who we are today in the New South. These one-time only
performances of four new plays with professional actors, directors and
dramaturgs are the culmination of an intensive week-long rehearsal and
revision period in which the playwrights refine their plays.
Reading Dates & Times (please call the Box Office to confirm):
Monday and Tuesday, June 19th & 20th - 7:30 pm
Saturday and Sunday, June 18th, 24th & 25th - 1:00 pm
Sales tax is added to all ticket purchases.
• $5 for the general public
• Free for Horizon subscribers
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Sunday, June 18th - 7:30 pm
by Wayne Lemons
Set in a Bible-themed miniature golf course
in rural Texas, this comedy-drama follows small town 20-somethings looking
for identity, sanity, faith and freedom.
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Monday, June 19th - 7:30 pm 
by Christina Anderson
Brugh Jefferson and his grandmother Mae are
close. When she faces the end of her life, he struggles to define and
learn from both her mistakes and triumphs. A poetic and frank
intergenerational story.
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Tuesday, June 20th - 7:30
pm
by Janece Shaffer
Five liberal mothers on an overnight
camping trip get their badges in race relations. A tense and darkly
funny story of raising children in a black and white world.
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Saturday, June 24th - 1 pm
by Heidi Cline, Clark Taylor and Leigh
Campbell-Taylor
A sci-fi musical comedy in which two
ten-year old playmates, Roxy and Olivia, discover that their
electro-magnetic energy is super-sized after a trip through the
little-known Stone Mountain vortex portal. The girls are recruited and
become agents for the Portal Authority of the Universe and work to
save the state of Florida from being overthrown by the partnership of
piracy between renegade Visigoths and enterprising ancient Egyptian
mystics using the Stone Mountain portal while they think no one is
looking. It's a musical comedy adventure, with threads of science
fiction and fantasy, suitable for the entire family.
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Sunday, June 25th - 1 pm
by Wayne Lemons
The second and newest play in the "Jesus"
trilogy set in Texas by the author of Jesus Hates Me.
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Professional readings of plays by the best college and high school
writers.
NSYP Contest Winning Plays
: FREE
May 30 - June 2nd, 4 pm
NSYP Short Play Festival
Saturday, June 3rd, 1 pm - $5 (Students and Subscribers - FREE) |
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The Process Theatre Company
Horizon Theatre Company
and Working Title Playwrights
Presents
Talkin' Bout My Generation: A Five-Minute Play
Festival
Atlanta’s top playwrights come together with
up-and-coming playwrights from The New South Young Playwrights Festival to
bring you the city’s first ever 5 minute play festival. Talkin' Bout My
Generation takes a comic and heartwarming look at growing up in
America over the past 40 years.
One Show Only –
June 4 at 8:30 at the Horizon
Theatre
List of Playwrights:
Evan Guilford-Blake, Suehyla El-Attar, Topher Payne, Robin Seidman, Marki
Shalloe, Daniel Walsh, Steve Yockey and some of the young playwrights from
the New South Young Playwrights Festival.List of Actors: Lynne Ashe, Dan
Balmer, Marcelo Banderas, Jane Bass, Kara Cantrell, Barbara Cole, Theresa
Cunningham, Luis Hernandez, Amy Holt, Josie Burgin-Lawson, Marcie Millard,
Katie Merritt, Betty Mitchell, Topher Payne, and more. List of Directors:
Evan Guilford-Blake, Barbara Cole, Joe Gfaller, Betty Hart, DeWayne Morgan
and Jeanette Stinson.Tickets $10For reservations call The Process Theatre
Box office at 404/245-4205
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