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:

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

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

 
     
     
  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.

 

   

 

 

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)

 

 

 

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