Local gay playwright offers ‘Breakfast Club’ on teachers

  Essential Theatre’s triumvirate of new shows this summer includes a world premiere from tireless gay playwright Topher Payne. His latest is “Evelyn in Purgatory,” which he laughingly calls “The Breakfast Club” for teachers. It’s the story of a group of public school teachers, crammed into a tiny office at the Department of Education, awaiting disciplinary hearings. “They’re being punished, but nobody in charge cares enough to even observe them,” says Payne, also a GA Voice columnist. “The teachers have no information on how long they’ll be there, or what they’re supposed to be doing. So they’re just… >>

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