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 and Brook St. 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 2024-2025 season and the City of Alpharetta’s 2025 Fiscal Year. As a result of this continuing partnership, we are offering these shows.
Romeo & Juliet
by William Shakespeare
The Bandstand in Brook Street Park
October 18-27, 2024
Due to depicted violence, recommended for audience members 13-years-old and up.
In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare creates a violent world, in which two young people fall in love. It is not simply that their families disapprove; the Montagues and the Capulets are engaged in a blood feud.
In this death-filled setting, the movement from love at first sight to the lovers’ final union in death seems almost inevitable. And yet, this play set in an extraordinary world has become the quintessential story of young love. In part because of its exquisite language, it is easy to respond as if it were about all young lovers.
Shiloh Rules
by Doris Baizley
Alpharetta Arts Center, Black Box Theater
February 7-16, 2025
A dedicated Union nurse and a mysterious Confederate refugee meet on the Shiloh battlefield to compete for the title of Best Female Reenactor of the Year. With their young trainees trying to out-do each other in "authenticity," and a concessionaire egging both sides on, their competition leads them into real conflict with Ranger Wilson, an African-American female park ranger who would rather be anywhere than the year 1862, imaginary or not. As the re-enactment rages out of control, all six women discover that some conflicts of the Civil War weren't left behind in 1862.