The 2011 Essential Theatre Play Festival

2011 was another great year for Essential, with Lee Blessing’s GREAT FALLS, Melanie Marnich’s A SLEEPING COUNTRY (Blessing and Marnich are married, which we didn’t even know when we chose those plays!) and the World Premiere of Theroun Patterson’s A THOUSAND CIRCLETS,

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Bare Essentials Play Readings

Curated by Essential’s Founding Artistic Director, Peter Hardy, himself a national award-winning playwright who’s had over 30 productions of his work done around the country and has had plays chosen for the National Playwrights’ Conference and the Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival and received playwriting awards from the National Playwrights’ Conference,

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