• Stacey Bode
• Rodrigo (Lucky Yates, left), Helena (Amber Nash), and Daniel (Tom Rittenhouse)

The last theatrical production at Dad's Garage Theatre in Inman Park could be the start of a beautiful friendship.

The former warehouse on Elizabeth Street first provided a home to Actor's Express in August 1989. When the Express relocated to the King Plow Arts Center in the mid '90s, the playhouse became home to Dad's Garage, a scrappy young company that emphasized improv and plays that appealed to young adults. The area's recent gentrification inspired Dad's landlord to sell the property after 18 years.

The playhouse's final scripted production, Dementia Juice, teams Dad's Garage artistic director Kevin Gillese and puppeteer/7 Stages associate artistic director Michael Haverty. Dementia Juice was already in the works when Dad's Garage struck a deal to make 7 Stages the company's interim home while looking for a permanent space. In their curtain speech at Dementia Juice's opening night, Gillese and Haverty joked that they're going to be roommates. Dementia Juice provides both artists with a chance to play to their strengths - Gillese's high-energy approach to pop culture and Haverty's wildly inventive puppetry - to give the Inman Park playhouse an entertaining, exhausting send-off.