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Become a Facebook Fan

The influence of Facebook in marketing the theatre continues to growth indicatinges how social media continues to enhance and re-define the way arts organizations reach out to audiences.

When we reach a fan base of 1,000, Facebook provides a series of advanced tools and analytics that will enhance our ability to reach those interested in theatre. We can easily achieve this by encouraging our friends on to Become a Fan on Facebook and recommend us to their friends. When you access our page you will see a list of options below the logo on the left. One is “Suggest to Friends.” When you click on this link a box with all of your friends’ photos opens.

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JC Reilly, one of the Georgia Poetry Society members who will be participating in a poetry reading at 7pm on Saturday July 25th prior to the 8pm “Ice Glen” performance. JC would like to offer this poem for your consideration. We hope you will come a bit early to hear JC’s poetry and the work of other GPS members.

    Fall, Star City by JC Reilly

    The blush has crept into the leaves,
    as sunshine, sanguine with the months
    of growing, cools its fire. The light
    that we get now is maizy, saturates

    everything with extract of gold,

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Dexter Speaks Out

Sarah Falkenburg Wallace – Dexter (Food for Fish)
This is the fourth Festival I’ve been lucky enough to be involved in. I have always enjoyed being a part of the festival and have played a voice in the attic, a murderous college student, & a girl who turned into a horse. However, simply being cast as a man has turned into one of the most challenging roles of my acting career. I have enjoyed the process as one of the most truly involved roles I’ve worked to create since Dexter is the complete opposite of me in every way.

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Guest Poetry Readers

Come support our guest poetry readers as they share a brief selection before selected performances.

  • Flora Maria Garcia, Executive Director MACC July 10 8pm
  • Jeff Watkins, Artistic Director, Shakespeare Tavern, July 12 7pm
  • Bob Farley, Artistic Director, Georgia Ensemble July 20th 8pm
  • Georgia Poetry Society July 25th begins at 7pm
  • Charles Green, Fulton County Arts Council/Sunrise Bank. July 26th 7pm
  • Phillip Depoy, Clayton State, Drama Dept. Chair, July 31 8pm.

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Food for Fish: “I wanted to direct it”

As soon as I started reading Adam Szymkowicz’s FOOD FOR FISH, I knew that I wanted to include it in the 2009 Essential Theatre Play Festival, and that I wanted to direct it. I’m not sure I could have articulated why I felt this way, except that found the script to be funny and weird and beautiful (a combination that I always like). There’s a lot of stuff in it about writing, which I’m drawn to, and it also looks at the differences between the way we often try to idealize ourselves into fantasy relationships, instead of dealing with the reality of the people we get close to (another fascination of mine,

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Volunteer Ushers: only a few dates remain open

Essential Theatre appreciates its’ volunteer ushers. We have a few remaining opportunities to participate as an usher and great new theatre. These dates are still available. Please email us Essential AT ivf.com if you wish to usher on any of the dates listed below.

    7/11 7:15 pm Food for Fish
    7/18 7:15 pm Jim Crow
    7/19 1:15 pm Jim Crow
    7/19 6:15pm Food for Fish
    7/25 1:15 pm Jim Crow
    7/26 6:15pm Ice Glen
    7/29 7:15 pm Ice Glen
    7/30 7:15pm Jim Crow
    7/31 7:15pm Ice Glen
    8/1 1:15pm Jim Crow
    8/1 7:15 pm Food for Fish
    8/2 1:15pm Jim Crow

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From Artistic Director Peter Hardy

I came to Atlanta in the fall of 1986, hired by the late Michael Horne to direct a Wendy Wasserstein comedy called Isn’t It Romantic at Theatre in the Square, and then sticking around to perform in the Horizon Theatre’s Christmas production of Alan Ayckbourn’s Season’s Greetings. By that time, I’d decided to stay. In 1987 I was acting in another comedy at the Horizon, Christopher Durang’s The Marriage of Bette and Boo, but already I was wanting to make my own productions happen, and in the fall of ’87 I produced and directed the first Essential Theatre show – two ghost story one-acts by John Pielmeier (author of Agnes of God),

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