Essential Theatre presents: INDEPENDENT
Two nights only! August 17 and 18, 2017 at 8pm
Dan Triandiflou stars in a one-man performance as director John Cassavetes, the Godfather of American independent films.
Two nights only! August 17 and 18, 2017 at 8pm
Dan Triandiflou stars in a one-man performance as director John Cassavetes, the Godfather of American independent films.
By G. M. Lupo
Directed by Peter Hardy
ANOTHER MOTHER press kit with photos
World premiere opens August 4, 2017
Winner of the 2017 Essential Theatre Playwriting Award,
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If someone you loved went missing, how far would you go to find them? A man goes on a dream quest to figure out what happened to his best friend,
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Dispossed Dramaturgy Board
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August 6 Talkback following DISPOSSESSED
DISPOSSESSED is a romantic comic-fantasy,
A warm, touching play about the members of a small African-American church, struggling to keep its doors open and adapt to changing times.
Starting out as a satirical look at the world of social media, this quirky comedy takes a turn into deeper territory when Lillian thinks she may have found the perfect guy —
Founding Artistic Director Peter Hardy will be overseeing the Bare Essentials reading series and directing three of the six readings himself. Peter is a national award-winning playwright himself, who’s had over 30 productions of his work done around the country, and was named Creative Loafing’s Critic’s Pick for Best Local Playwright in 2010.
Three women face the final days of their ailing sister’s life in this moving family drama. Emotionally raw and sometimes painfully funny, it’s a transcendent study of love and mortality and survival.