Our Partnership with the City of Alpharetta
ACT1 Theater and the City of Alpharetta formed a partnership in 2017. Working together, we have produced plays and vignettes of William Shakespeare outdoors in Wills Park, a series of songs and scenes for the City’s inaugural Summer Concert Series in Brooks Street Park, and plays in the Alpharetta Arts Center intimate Black Box Theater.
We are pleased to continue this partnership during ACT1 Theater’s 2023-2024 season and the City of Alpharetta’s 2024 Fiscal Year. As a result of this continuing partnership, we are offering these shows.
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
On the Bandstand,
Brooke Street Park,
2 Park Plaza, Alpharetta, GA 30009
October 27 & 28, 2023
November 3 & 4, 2023
Friday Shows at 7:30
Saturday Shows at Noon and 7:30
Hamlet is Shakespeare’s most popular, and most puzzling, play. It follows the form of a “revenge tragedy,” in which the hero, Hamlet, seeks vengeance against his father’s murderer, his uncle Claudius, now the king of Denmark. Much of its fascination, however, lies in its uncertainties. Among them: What is the Ghost—Hamlet’s father demanding justice, a tempting demon, an angelic messenger? Does Hamlet go mad, or merely pretend to? Once he is sure that Claudius is a murderer, why does he not act? Was his mother, Gertrude, unfaithful to her husband or complicit in his murder? (Folger Shakespeare Library)
Eurydice
by Sarah Ruhl
The Black Box Theater in the Alpharetta Arts Center, 238 Canton Street, 30009
February 10-18, 2024.
In Eurydice, Sarah Ruhl reimagines the classic myth of Orpheus through the eyes of its heroine. Dying too young on her wedding day, Eurydice must journey to the underworld, where she reunites with her father and struggles to remember her lost love. With contemporary characters, ingenious plot twists, and breathtaking visual effects, the play is a fresh look at a timeless love story.