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Meet Bill Fennelly
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Catch my in-depth profile of the energetic new Actor’s Express artistic director in Sunday’s Arts & Books section.
Meanwhile, here are the plays he has picked for his first season.
“Dark Play or Stories for Boys” by Carlos Murillo. Fennelly saw the play at the just-ended Humana Festival of New American Plays. “It’s sexy and scary and it deals with the lightning fast, changing pace of the world that we live in, that technology has just changed the rules of the game and that we as a society have not actually caught up, morally, legally, personally.” Freddie Ashley directs. Aug. 9-Oct. 6.
“The Fantasticks.” Fennelly’s directing debut as the new artistic chief.”We are calling it the adult version of ‘The Fantasticks.’ It ain’t yo mama’s ‘Fantasticks.’” Oct. 28-Nov. 24.
“Octopus,” world premiere, by Steve Yockey. A post-“Angels in America” look at gay relationships, isolation and medical catastrophe. “Steve calls it a post-modern love story. I feel in a lot of ways it’s the play that Actor’s Express has been waiting for for 20 years.” Jan. 27-Feb. 23.
“Piece,” a world premiere musical by Scott Alan and Tara Smith. “It’s about a woman returning home after the death of her mother and encountering her life, where she is and how she got there.” March 16-April 12. Directed by Daniella Topol. For more info: Piecethemusical.com
“When Something Wonderful Ends” by Sherry Kramer. Another Humana find. “It’s set in the old playroom of this woman’s [childhood] home. Through the packing up of her extensive Barbie collection, she unpacks the issues of global conflict, the Middle East and the petroleum crisis and the fact that we are on this fast-track to global meltdown.” Fennelly directs. May 4-May 31, 2008.
“Hedwig and the Angry Inch.” Ashley directs this “reinvention” of the fabulous John Cameron Mitchell musical that rocked the Express in the summer of ‘03. June 22-July 19, 2008.
Information: 404-607-7469; www.actors-express.com
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