Beverly Austin’s “The Wishing Place”

The Essential Theatre Festival continues with the World Premiere of The Wishing Place, written by Beverly Austin and directed by Ellen McQueen, on August 18 at 8pm in the 7Stages Black Box Theatre.

Austin’s first play was produced in London in 1974, and she has had more than three dozen plays produced or presented since then. A native Atlantan for generations back, for this play Austin draws deeply from memories of visiting her father’s family in Byron, Georgia when she was growing up.

The Wishing Place is a poetic drama about two families in 1960s rural Georgia, one black and one white, trying to find their path and keep their dreams alive. Audiences only have 8 chances to see this poetic story unfold in its world premiere.