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2011 Essential Festival
Lineup
A Thousand Circlets
by Georgia Playwright, Theroun D'arcy Patterson
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This powerful and emotional work falls into the classic tradition of the American family drama, telling the tale of an African-American clan trying to heal old wounds as they face new challenges – and just as they are poised to reach the pinnacle of their professional success, the father’s illness threatens to bring it all crashing down.
Great Falls
by Lee Blessing
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A girl and her step-father take a road trip, going on a journey that takes them across the map of America and deep into their own troubled hearts. By one of America’s best playwrights, author of Eleemosynary, A Walk In the Woods and Going To St. Ives (and husband of Melanie Marnich).
A Sleeping Country
by Melanie Marnich
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Winner of the 2008 Mickey Kaplan Play Prize, it’s a magical romantic comedy about a woman who travels to Italy looking for help with her terrible insomnia. In trying to find a way to fall asleep, she learns how to become truly awake. By one of the award-winning writers of the TV series Big Love (and wife of Lee Blessing).
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