Posts Tagged ‘Theroun D’Arcy Patterson’

Working Title Playwrights is thrilled for one of our own, Theroun D’Arcy Patterson, and the success he’s achieved in the short time he has dedicated himself to playwriting. Among other distinctions, he is the winner of the 2011 Essential Theatre Playwriting Award. Check out a great Encore Atlanta feature about his journey here.

His play, A THOUSAND CIRCLETS, is a part of this summer’s Essential Theatre Play Festival, opening on June 30th. We are delighted that this fine work has its humble beginnings rooted in WTP’s Monday Night Critique Sessions and our On Demand Reading Series (ahem, mentioned way back in January 2010 right here in this very blog, as some of you may recall). You can catch its premiere performance on July 15th.

So here’s your takeaway: 1) Go see Theroun’s A THOUSAND CIRCLETS and 2) when you think about developing playwrights, think Working Title Playwrights. Our support can have a ripple effect.

WHEN: Today, Tuesday, January 12, 7:30pm – 10:00pm
WHERE: Academy Theatre, 119 Center St., Avondale Estates, GA

All is not well in the Leighton household. Earl is about to realize his lifelong ambition of building a skyscraper when his mind begins to rebel against him. His wife, Liz, is realizing that the life she has come to love is beginning to spiral apart, and she’s not taking it well… or lying down. Their children are another story. Caleb has secret, and a new Ferrari, and a tailor. Rebecca, the journalist, is returning home after being fired. Grey has resigned from life in the wake of a scandal that nearly destroyed his own career. Promises are broken, loyalties are tested, and a lingering intimacy demands to be dealt with. This is a play about the messy architecture of a life, the price of ambition, and ultimately, the sacrifices it takes to build a legacy.

WITH Tony Vaughn, Jen Harper, Betty Hart, Enoch King and Eugene H. Russell IV.

A talkback with the playwright will immediately follow the reading.

FREE to WTP members. $5 donation at door all others.