Opening the Festival on August 9 will be The Other Part of the Picture, a comic drama about a group of students who find a mysterious batch of old letters in the house two of them are living in. Written by Essential’s Founding Artistic Director Peter Hardy, it’s won playwriting prizes from the New York Script Awards and the Best Script Awards – London. It was also chosen for the Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival, where it was given a staged reading. This will be the play’s World Premiere production.
Audience Advisories: Adult language and sexual situations
Performance Schedule
Thursday August 8 (8pm Preview)
Friday August 9 (8pm Opening)
Saturday August 10 (8pm)
Saturday August 17 (8pm)
Sunday August 18 (2pm)
Friday August 23 (8pm)
Sunday August 25 (7pm)
Monday August 26 (8pm Industry Night)
Friday August 30 (8pm)
In The Press
Peter Hardy’s The Other Part of the Picture or, Letters from the House of Fate is so full of extraordinary performances that what stuck with me the longest were the words we didn’t hear, the emotions left unexpressed, the letters we did not hear read aloud...[this play] is a perfect piece to open this year’s Festival and it bodes great things for the remaining productions.
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What Audiences Are Saying
“Brought me back to my college days while being both funny and mysterious.”
“I highly recommend catching this lovely production at 7Stages before it closes. You’ll be thinking about it long after you’ve seen it.”
“Wonderful play. Woke up thinking about it in the middle of the night.”
“Wonderful (and I mean it!)”
“Beautifully written, it is a comic and poignant exploration of our ability to fill in missing pieces of information, sometimes successfully but, more often, creating a flawed picture of the whole truth. The talented cast was expertly directed by Ellen McQueen.”
“A wonderful mystery that examines stories, writing, and life. With some wicked theatre jokes.”
“This production is fantastic! Very funny. Brilliantly written. Cast is wonderful. A must see!”
Cast:
Matt: Caleb Wilkinson
Maddie: Ash Anderson
Cynthia, New Female Tenant: Iniki Roberts
Roger, Various Guys: Brock Kercher
Taylor, Various Guys: Tommy Sullivan-Lovett
Glenda: Rebecca Van Kirk
Liz: Ellie Styron
Voice of Unknown Woman: Carolyn Cook
Voice of Radio D.J.: Matt Cook
Artistic Team:
Playwright: Peter Hardy
Director: Ellen McQueen
Stage Manager: Amanda Taylor Brooks
Assistant Stage Manager: Cassandra Dudley
Intimacy Director: Kristin Storla
Scenic Designer: Adam Pagdon
Lighting Designer: Harley Gould
Sound Designer: Joshuia Campbell
Composer: George Kotler-Wallace
Costume Designer: Savannah Cobb
Props Designer: Victoria Nation
Meet the Playwright: Peter Hardy
Peter Hardy is the founding Artistic Director of the Essential Theatre. He’s been working professionally in the Atlanta area for over 30 years as an actor, playwright and director. He’s a Suzi Bass Award-winning director who has directed over 100 productions in Georgia, North Carolina and New York, and he served as Artistic Director for the Mountainside Theatre in Cherokee, North Carolina for the summers from 1990 through 2005. He’s had over thirty productions of his plays done around the country and has received playwriting awards from the Festival of Southern Theatre and the New Southern Theatre Festival, and had plays chosen to be a part of the National Playwrights Conference and the Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival.
