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Horizon Theatre Company Announces
5th Season of Premiere Plays
In celebration of its fifth season, Horizon
Theatre Company in Little 5 Points is
whipping up a five-star feast of Atlanta,
Southeastern, and World Premieres of
contemporary plays. The 1988-89 season of
four plays promises everything from biting
satire to heartwarming comedy to
controversial drama. Andthisyear.it
includes a very special World Premiere by an
outstanding Atlanta writer. According to co-
artistic director Lisa Adler, "It’s a year filled
with hot new plays and playwrights and our
usual fabulous ensemble acting. Audiences
can expect scintillating language, a satiric wit
and humor, provocative ideas, contemporary
issues, and a bold sense of the theatrical."
Horizon's new season includes Life and
Limb by Keith Reddin (October 7-29), the
World Premier of Shakin' The Mess Outta
Misery by Shay Youngblood (December
2-23), Serious Money by Caryl Churchill
(February 17-March 11), and the World
Premiere of
Blackie by Y
York (May
5-27).
Performances
will be
Thursdays and
Fridays at 8:00
p.m„
Saturdays at
5:00 p.m. and
8:30 p.m., and
selected
Sundays at
5:00 p.m.
Horizon
opens its season October 7 with the crazy,
satiric comedy Life and Limb by Keith
Reddin, a vibrant young writer whose most
recent play, Big Time, is currently receiving
praises in its Off-Broadway run. Taking place
in New Jersey and the Netherworld, Life and
Limb is a hilarious fable of dark humor which
follows the fortunes of Franklin, a young man
who returns from the Korean War minus an
arm with sweet dreams of peace, prosperity
and owning a television set Instead, he and
his young wife Effie find themselves
struggling to keep their innocence in a
bizarrely outrageous world. As The Chicago
Tribune described it, Life and Limb is "a
tragicomic fantasy of the American dream
gone nutlily askew." The play will be co
directed by Horizon ensemble members
Rosemary Newcott and Sharon Brewer.
A World Premiere by an exciting, up-and-
coming Atlanta writer is second on the season
schedule when Horizon presents Shakin’The
Mess Outta Misery by Shay Youngblood.
This is the beautiful and hopeful story of a
young girl's coming of age in the South in the
1960s and of all the women who fed, read,
loved, and raised her. "This play is about my
Big Mamas. I listened to the stories they told
me and the stories they told each other when I
wasn't supposed to be listening. One day I
decided to give them a voice." Shakin’The
Mess Outta Misery is a special celebration of
love and family for the holiday season.
Fresh from its much-talked about
Broadway run last season, Horizon presents
as its third production, Serious Money, a
hysterically fun romp through the world of
high finance by the famed British author of
Cloud 9 and Top Girls, Caryl Churchill.
Financial buccaneers on both sides of the
Atlantic double and triple cross each other in
a high-stakes game, plotting to make
incredible fortunes. Corporate take-over
ware, covered-up cocaine deals, political
corruption, and possible murder are all part of
the intrigue in this stinging satire which will
be co-directed by Horizon’s co-artistic
directors Lisa and Jeff Adler.
The final production of the season is yet
another World Premiere, Blackie by Y Yoric,
a writer who was recently selected for
membership in the prestigious playwright's
group New Dramatists. In a future time of
lab-concocted people and passion-controlling
pills, Gene, a renegade geneticist, and his
family must hide the secret of their uncoded
origin.
When a
creepy,
snooty
neighbor
* gives
them
Blackie,
a pro
grammed
man
servant,
they take
on the
dan
gerous
task of restoring his personality and ulti
mately find themselves facing a decision that
will effect the future of the whole human
race. In this delightfully quick-witted, sci-fi
tale, originality triumphs in an ultra-efficient
world.
Individual and subscription tickets to the
4-play season are available by phone or by
mail. Individual ticket prices are $8.00 on
Thursdays and Sundays, S 10.50 on Fridays
and Saturdays, $6.00 for students and senior
citizens. The costofasubscrip-tion is $18.00
for the Bargain Preview series, $24.00 for the
Thursday or Sunday night series, $31.50 for
the Friday night or Saturday twilight series,
$37.00 for the Saturday night or Opening
Night series. A Rex-Pass which allows you
to pick the performances of your choice is k
available for $37.00.
For more information, tickets,
subscriptions, group rates, or a brochure,
please call 584-7450
Ray McKinnon and Mary Lou Newcott in Life and Limb.
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’’Next Generation’’ of Artistic Directors
Represented at Seven Stages Theater
The new face at Seven Stages is that of Elizabeth Bell-Haynes, a young black director
from Los Angeles, California. Currently, assisting Del Hamilton on his production of
Macbeth, Ms. Bell-Haynes is in Atlanta by way of a unique professional directing project
sponsored by the Drama League of New York. This project is the only national program for
emerging directors and is geared toward stimulating the next generation of artistic leadership
in the American Theatre.
Ms. Bell-Haynes was the first black female to enter the professional theatre program in
directing at California State University, Fullerton. Her directing credits include: Beckett's
Waiting For Godot, Marsha Norman's The Laundromat, Pinter’s Betrayal, and Shakespeare's
Romeo and Juliet. Ho 1 acting credits include: Clarisse in When Ya Comin Back Red. Ryder,
Billie in Nevis Mountain Dew, and Mrs. Squemish in The Country Wife.
"As a first time visitor to Atlanta, I'm experiencing a variety in artistic expression I didn't
know existed. My time at Seven Stages is proving both highly dynamic and intriguing.
There are not many nationally recognized theatres that maintain truly viable community ties.
After her stint at Seven Stages, Elizabeth Bell-Haynes will go to New York to Second
Stage Company working with a production of Lanford Wilson's The Rimers OF Eldritch.
Then she will direct a one-act at New York's Circle Repertory Theatre Company.
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