For two nights only, 7 Stages Theater in Little 5 is offering $10 previews for the world premiere staging of ‘In the Solitude of Cottonfields’, a play written by Bernard-Marie Koltes’. Originally written and performed in French, the play has been translated into English by Isma’il ibn Conner and will be directed by Eric Vigner. Here’s the description of the play from the 7 Stages site:

A white man approaches a black man on a deserted city street at sunset, and an interaction occurs in the space of a second. Bernard-Marie Koltès, France’s top contemporary playwright whose play has a World Premiere this month at 7 Stages, makes an entire drama of this one glance. Because, in the United States, 40 years after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., centuries of tension and meaning still exist in this, the smallest of exchanges between two humans, one black, one white. What happens between them? Everything: all the emotion, philosophy, politics, poetry and drama from the solitude of the cotton fields to a present-day city street, deserted at dusk.

 
The 7 Stages production kicks off a 10-year project aimed at celebrating the legacy of Bernard-Marie Koltes by translating and producing six of his plays.

$10 tickets are only available for the April 24 and April 25 shows. The theater is also featuring a PWYC (pay what you can) night on Wednesday, May 7…now you have NO excuse not to go and see the play. Hope to see you there!

Thanks to KeithKNOWS for the heads-up!

cheers,

k

7 Stages Theater
1105 Euclid Avenue
Atlanta, GA 30307
404-523-7647
Tickets can be purchased at: www.7stages.org
$25 for all regular performances (April 26 - May 19)
$5 off for students, seniors over 65, artists and educators