I had the good fortune to be invited to a preview of The Fern Theatre Company’s production of Theroun Patterson’s The Wilderness, which runs April 3-19 at 7 Stages. While in L5P, I took the opportunity to snap some more photos of some of the murals around the area.
Most of these are in the area surrounding the parking lot for 7 Stages, Rag-o-Rama, and the Variety Playhouse.
This last one demonstrates how fleeting some of the street art is. In November, I took a photo of the front of this building, which is apparently being turned into a Mexican restaurant. Then it looked like this.
When I went to take a photo tonight, however, I discovered it had been painted over with what appeared to be an orange or salmon colored paint, not nearly as interesting, but perhaps more in keeping with the style of restaurant that will be there. Fortunately, the side of the building still looked the same.
G. M. Lupo (ISNI: 0000 0005 0315 9196) is a native of Atlanta, Georgia where he has always had a dysfunctional relationship with his hometown. His most recent published work is the story collection Reconstruction (2020), part of his series of Atlanta Stories, which includes Fables of the New South (2017). Along with his novel, Rebecca, Too (2018), and his full-length play Another Mother, these constitute his Expanded Universe of Fictional Atlanta. He has also released a collection of essays, poetry, and stories entitled Words Words Words (2020).
He was the winner of the 2017 Essential Theatre Play Writing Award for Another Mother which had its world premiere in his home neighborhood of West End in August 2017, in the building that once housed the library where he learned to read as a child.
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I had the good fortune to be invited to a preview of The Fern Theatre Company’s production of Theroun Patterson’s The Wilderness, which runs April 3-19 at 7 Stages. While in L5P, I took the opportunity to snap some more photos of some of the murals around the area.
When I went to take a photo tonight, however, I discovered it had been painted over with what appeared to be an orange or salmon colored paint, not nearly as interesting, but perhaps more in keeping with the style of restaurant that will be there. Fortunately, the side of the building still looked the same.
