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In April 2006, with deep regret and infinite gratitude for the many people who helped us over our five-year history, Theatre OUTlanta made the difficult decision to disband. |
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join theatreLGBTQatlanta and find out about upcoming lgbtq arts events Although Theatre OUTlanta has closed, our email address is still active and we still work to keep these links up-to-date. If any links are "broken," please let us know! Theatre OUTlanta created theatre from the perspectives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and queer people, theatre that worked to reflect the many different experiences of lgbtq people and to buld bridges within both the lgbtq community and the wider community. ©2006 by Theatre OUTlanta |
Past productions and projects If you'd
be interested in producing any of these plays Raincheck, Claudia Allen's one-act play about love, friendship and family, October 6, 2005, for Charis Circle at Charis Books and More. Thema gets a second chance at love with her best friend from high school--with just a little help from her grandmother and great-aunt--in this funny, touching play that's not only about Thema and Gwen finally admitting they're in love, but also about the new family the four characters create together.
Act OUT 2005, our second fundraiser featuring queer performers of all kinds, September 22, at Jungle. Our first Act OUT was so much fun and so inspirational - for us, for the audience and for the performers - that we had to do it again. Our emcees were spoken word artist Cara Page and performance poet Duncan E. Teague of ADODI Muse, a Gay Negro Ensemble. Our fabulous perfomers were dancer and choreographer Endigo Hall Frantz, High Femme spoken word artist Kathleen Delaney, Athen's Classic City Kings, performance artist and playwright Cara Page, singer/songwriter Lucas Miré, Genre, Camellia Cuntwell of the Dixie Pistols, Process Theatre Company performing a scene from Topher Payne's play Relations Unknown, performance artist Curtis Tention, singer Kathryn Delacruz, the Drag Idol Gigi Monroe, and all-queer southern burlesque revue the Dixie Pistols.
What's In A Name? Partner. Girlfriend. Boyfriend. Husband. Wife. Lover. What other names have you heard? What names do you like? What names do you dislike? What names do you think are silly? We asked these questions at Atlanta Pride 2005 in hopes of developing a theatre piece. If you'd like to see the responses we got, click here. Act OUT 2004, our first annual fun/fundraiser, an evening showcasing great queer performers, November 17, 2004 at Eddie's Attic in downtown Decatur. Opening the evening for us was the Atlanta Freedom Marching Band's Jazz Ensemble with the fabulous emcee duo of Diego Wolf of the Classic City Kings and drag queen Gigi Monroe. Also sharing their time and incredible talent with us were dancer/spokenword artist Curtis Tention, the drag king troupe the Classic City Kings, spoken word artists Cara Page and Annikatina, singer/songwriter Lucas Miré, drag king Leroy Tucker, ZAMI’s DrumSista, gender-bending spoken word artists the Athens Boys Choir, violinist/vocalist LaTonya Peoples, and the performance poets of ADODI Muse.
Love and Marriage, three evenings of readings of plays celebrating lgbt marriage and family, September 13, October 4 and October 25, 2004 at Onstage Atlanta. Each evening of plays included information from Marriage Equality Georgia about the marriage amendment on the November 2 ballot. The plays included: Monday, September 13:
Monday, October 4 :
Monday, October 25 at 8:00 pm:
Staged reading of Jenny Yates' lesbian romantic comedy The Poet, April 8 to 11, 2004 at Dad Garage's Top Shelf Theatre in Inman Park near Little Five Points. At a lesbian writers retreat, Rae has fallen in love, as she does every year. She begins to leave love poems for the woman she wants but is afraid to name. As other women find them, the confusion multiplies and so does the fun, since everyone would like to believe that the woman she wants has written the poems just for her.
Paul Harris' You Look for Me and Marty Kingsbury's Painting Louise, two plays about relationships and might-have-beens, in rotating repertory, May 15 to June 1, 2003, at 1226 Spring Street, Atlanta, next to Whole World Theatre. Using letters and emails, You Look for Me tells the story of two men, one gay, one "straight," who are briefly lovers in the 1960's and eventually become life-long friends. (Thanks to VSA arts of Georgia, the May 28th performance of You Look for Me was sign-language interpretted for the deaf and hard-of-hearing.) Painting Louise is about a pivotal weekend in the lives of two lesbian couples. Elsie and Parker were best friends in high school, but weren't quite brave enough to do anything about the fact that they were in love. In Painting Louise, they're seeing each other for the first time in almost twenty years, but there's a complication they didn't think about when they were 18--they both now have lovers. Joe Godfrey's A Queer Carol, a contemporary version of Dickens' classic based on the premise that Scrooge is gay and Crachitt's family is his lover Tim and the lesbian couple that are their best friends, presented December 13, 2002 to January 5, 2003 at 7 Stages Back Stage Theatre. We were thrilled to be the first theatre company outside New York to produce this funny and moving play. With Joe's encouragement, we adapted the references in the play so that A Queer Carol was set in Atlanta.
The Atlanta premier of Cheryl Ann Costa's A Princess in Training and local writer/performer Kt Kilborn (now Scott Turner Schofield)'s Underground TRANSit, two-transgendered one-acts, presented September 27 to October 6, 2002 in the Alley Stage at Theatre in the Square. A Princess in Training tells the story of a male-to-female transexual's journey from Prince to Princess, in two contrasting voices: as a fairy tale and in the down-to-earth, richly humorous voice of the "princess" herself. Underground TRANSit is another journey through gender, through the life of a boy-identified Homecoming Queen, a lesbian who grew up believing she was a boy and now struggles with the concept of gender itself. In this one-person show, Kt explores what happens when her take on being a woman and being queer collides with the world's. We were also honored to present a slightly shortened version of Underground TRANSit at the Southern Comfort Conference, September 20, 2002.
John Bowen's Trevor, a British farce about a young lesbian couple attempting to "straighten up" for a parental visit, presented July 5 to 21, 2002 at 7 Stages Back Stage Theatre. Naturally, things don't go as Sarah and Jane have planned, with hilarious and ulitimately poignant results. This comedy, set and written in 1968, was our first fully-staged production. Diverse Lives, readings of four short plays, presented June 23, 2001 in Piedmont Park, included:
For these one-acts, we called ourselves the LGBT Theatre Project. |
