Theatrical Outfit, GET announce 2011-2012 seasons

Sigmund Freud, Mark Rothko and Johnny Cash to grace Atlanta stages. In spirit.

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Theatrical Outfit and Georgia Ensemble Theatre have joined the Alliance Theatre and Aurora Theatre in announcing their 2011-2012 seasons.

Theatrical Outfit, located downtown at the Balzer Theatre at Herren’s, does not reschedule Tony Kushner’s musical Caroline, or Change and seems to leave December open for a possible Christmas show:

The Green Book (Aug. 17-Sep. 11) “In the days of Jim Crow laws, the “Green Book” let black tourists know where it was safe to dine and stay overnight, the “tourist homes” or private residences made available by African American homeowners. Set in 1953, this stirring new drama by Atlanta writer Calvin Alexander Ramsey takes place in just such a home, in Jefferson City, MO, where a black military officer, his wife and a Jewish holocaust survivor all spend the night only hours before W.E.B. Du Bois is scheduled to deliver a speech in town.

Freud’s Last Session (Oct. 12-Nov. 6) “On the day England enters World War Two, legendary psychoanalyst Dr. Sigmund Freud and rising Oxford professor C.S. Lewis clash about love, sex, the existence of God, and the meaning of life, just weeks before Freud ends his own. Freud’s Last Session by Mark St. Germaine (The God Committee, produced by the Outfit in 2006, pictured) explores the minds, hearts and souls of two of the world’s most brilliant men addressing the greatest questions of all time.” Given that artistic director Tom Key has played C.S. Lewis in his one-man show, I have a hunch who one of the actors will be.