[NEohioPAL]MEASURE FOR MEASURE opens at Kent State University

Tue Oct 15 15:11:02 PDT 2002

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KSU EXPLORESTHE DYNAMICS OF HUMAN DESIRE AND ITS REPRESSION
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School of Theatre & Dance season
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            Cleveland,Ohio =E2=80=93 Directed by Terry Burgler, MEASURE FOR=20=
MEASURE=20
runs November 1 - 10, at Kent State University=E2=80=99s School of Theatre &=
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Shakespeare=E2=80=99s most astringent and provocative comedy will be perform=
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Wright-Curtis Theatre in the Music & Speech Center.
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            =E2=80=9CTis one thing to be tempted, Escalus, another thing to=20=
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Angelo

Written by William Shakespeare and directed by Terry Burgler, this is the=20
Bard=E2=80=99s most astringent and provocative comedy, which explores the dy=
namics of=20
human desire and its repression.  How do you live when you know you are=20
goingto die?  If you are not in love, how can you bear the loneliness? =20
MEASURE FOR MEASURE is a thrilling play with sexual tension and moral debate=
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 MEASURE FOR MEASURE runs November 1 - 10 in Wright-Curtis Theatre of the=20
Music & Speech Building on the Main Kent State University campus. =20
Performances are Tuesdays =E2=80=93 Saturdays at 8 PM and Sundays at 2:30=20
PM.

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The cast of MEASURE FOR MEASURE includes=E2=80=A6

Professor Terry Burgler (Director)
Cliff Bailey (Escalus)
Kenneth Bentley (Friar Thomas)
Sarah Bird (Ensemble)
Michael Boomhower (Gentleman)
Lauren Champlin (Ensemble)
Yolanda Christine Davis (Provost)
Jillaine Gill (Ensemble)
Remy Halliday (Froth)
Dan Hendrock (Elbow)
Adam Hoffman (Angelo)
Nicholas Horton (Friar Peter)
Adam Day Howard (Pompey)
Brian Hurst (Barnardine)
Jovana Jokic (Gentlewoman)
Geoff Knox (Claudio)
Sarah Lyon (Marianna)
Lara Milcarek (Abhorson)
Jenni Lou Oakes (Ensemble)
Emily Pote (Francesca)
Alana Rader (Juliet)
Kat Savering (Justice)
Lisa Marie Schueller (Isabella)
Christopher Seiler (Lucio)
Brandon Terreri (Messenger)
Colleen Somerville (Gentlewoman)
Sara Vitullo (The Duke)
Matt Wisniewski (Varrius)
Megan Yarosh (Overdone)

Performances are Tuesdays =E2=80=93 Saturdays at 8 PM and Sundays at 2:30 PM=
. =20
Tickets are $10 for adults, $8 for Seniors, KSU Alumni, Faculty, and Staff=20
and $7 for students with any valid school ID or under 18 years of age. =20
Groups of ten or more can receive discounted tickets by calling=20
330-672-2497. Box-office hours are 12 PM =E2=80=93 5 PM, Mondays =E2=80=93 F=
ridays, Saturday=20
during the run of the show from 3 PM =E2=80=93 7 PM and one hour before perf=
ormance=20
times.  Tickets can be purchased by calling 330-672-2497.  The box office=20
acceptsVisa, MasterCard, and Discover.  Tickets purchased by phone must be=20
held with a credit card.  All purchased tickets are non-refundable.  For mor=
e=20
information on the School of Theatre & Dance visit us at www.theatre.kent.ed=
u.
=20
Contact Information:

ElisabethMadden
ManagingDirector
emadden at kent.edu
330-672-0103(Phone)
330-672-2889(Fax)
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 Cliff Bailey (Escalus)
 Kenneth Bentley (Friar Thomas)
 Sarah Bird (Ensemble)
 Michael Boomhower (Gentleman)
 Lauren Champlin (Ensemble)
 Yolanda Christine Davis (Provost)
 Jillaine Gill (Ensemble)
 Remy Halliday (Froth)
 Dan Hendrock (Elbow)
 Adam Hoffman (Angelo)
 Nicholas Horton (Friar Peter)
 Adam Day Howard (Pompey)
 Brian Hurst (Barnardine)
 Jovana Jokic (Gentlewoman)
 Geoff Knox (Claudio)
 Sarah Lyon (Marianna)
 Lara Milcarek (Abhorson)
 Jenni Lou Oakes (Ensemble)
 Emily Pote (Francesca)
 Alana Rader (Juliet)
 Kat Savering (Justice)
 Lisa Marie Schueller (Isabella)
 Christopher Seiler (Lucio)
 Brandon Terreri (Messenger)
 Colleen Somerville (Gentlewoman)
 Sara Vitullo (The Duke)
 Matt Wisniewski (Varrius)
 Megan Yarosh (Overdone) Performances are Tuesdays =E2=80=
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ts, $8 for Seniors, KSU Alumni, Faculty, and Staff and $7 for students with=20=
any valid school ID or under 18 years of age.  Groups of ten or more ca=
n receive discounted tickets by calling 330-672-2497. Box-office hours are 1=
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eptsVisa, MasterCard, and Discover.  Tickets purchased by phone must be=
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>From jfogel at clevelandplayhouse.com" <jfogel at clevelandplayhouse.com  Tue Oct 15 19:41:11 2002
From: jfogel at clevelandplayhouse.com" <jfogel at clevelandplayhouse.com (Julie Fogel)
Date: Tue Oct 15 18:41:11 2002
Subject: [NEohioPAL]CPH'S WORLD PREMIERE OF LOCAL PLAYWRIGHT
Message-ID: <01C27466.01931DA0.jfogel at clevelandplayhouse.com>

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:	Contact:
September 18, 2002	Julie Fogel, (216) 795-7000, ext. 236

The Cleveland Play House
Presents World Premiere Comedy
Cleveland Playwright's Bright Ideas Lights Up the World of Parenting

Cleveland Play House Artistic Director Peter Hackett announces the World 
Premiere of Eric Coble's Bright Ideas, October 15 through November 10, 2002 
in the Drury Theatre.  The Cleveland playwright's dark comedy about the 
pressures of parenting is the second offering in The Cleveland Play House's 
2002-2003 Mainstage Season, sponsored by KeyBank.

Bright Ideas marks the mainstage debut for Coble, who earned one of this 
year's AT&T: OnStage awards. Coble's work has been produced in previous 
seasons, as well as the current season, of CPH's Children's Theatre.

Chosen from among the offerings in the 2001-2002 season's Next Stage 
Festival, the premiere of Bright Ideas continues The Cleveland Play House 
tradition of developing new work for the American Theatre. As with Murphy 
Guyer's The Infinite Regress of Human Vanity, which also grew from the 
theatre's playwriting program, Bright Ideas will be the centerpiece of the 
2002-2003 Next Stage Festival, set to run the weekends of November 9-10 and 
16-17, 2002.

STORY OF THE PLAY
How far would you go to put your child on the fast track to success? 
Following in the footsteps of a certain Shakespeare classic (Out, out 
damned spot!), Bright Ideas storms through the minefields of modern 
parenting, and for Genevra and Joshua Bradley, the question is hardly 
rhetoric. Their three-year-old son, Mac, is next on the waiting list to get 
into Bright Ideas Early Childhood Development Academy - and everyone knows 
that once you're accepted there, your life will unfold with glorious ease. 
Josh and Genevra have scrambled all their lives, but now are but one 
fateful dinner party away from the ultimate in parental success: the golden 
pre-school.

CAST HIGHLIGHTS
Susan Ericksen (Generva) returns to The Cleveland Play House where her 
credits include Dinner with Friends, Jerusalem, A Kiss for Cinderella, 
Gifts of the Magi, Quilters and The Next Stage Festival.  NYC: Romulus 
Linney's Gint, Silver River (with Kathleen Chalfant) and A Woman Without a 
Name.  Regional: Repertory Theatre of St. Louis: Show and Tell; Cincinnati 
Playhouse in the Park: The Brothers Karamazov (World Premiere); Center 
Stage: The Tempest; North Carolina Shakespeare Festival: As You Like It, 
Twelfth Night, Arms and the Man and The Dybbuk.  Ms. Ericksen has performed 
and directed at Hope Summer Repertory Theatre, and has also directed for 
The Cleveland Play House Children's Theatre, CWRU and the University of 
Evansville.

Kate Hodge (Parent/multiple roles) made her theatrical debut in The 
Cleveland Play House production of Dinner with Friends last season. A 
resident of New York, Ms. Hodge has appeared as a regular on many 
television programs, including "Working," "Ellen," "The George Wendt Show" 
and "Level 9," has been a guest star on many others, and has been cast in 
several television pilots. Film work includes Rapid Fire, Leatherface and 
Texas Chainsaw Massacre III. Training: UCLA Theater Arts, Marcel Marceau 
Mime School in Paris, San Francisco Ballet School.

Andrew May (Joshua) is a teacher, director and Artistic Associate at The 
Cleveland Play House, where he was most recently seen in Betrayal, The 
Infinite Regress of Human Vanity, I Hate Hamlet, Frank Langella's Cyrano, 
Art, The Guardsman, A Small Family Business, A Dream Play, Seascape and 
Twelve Angry Men.  He has performed at various theatres across the country 
including Wisdom Bridge, Studio Arena, the Goodman and Victory Gardens.  As 
a member of the Milwaukee Repertory Company, he performed in over 35 
productions, including the American premieres of Steven Dietz's Force of 
Nature, Marina Carr's The Mai and Richard Nelson's The General from 
America.

CREATIVE TEAM
Eric Coble (Playwright) was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and bred on the 
Navajo and Ute reservations in New Mexico and Colorado. He is a member of 
the Playwrights' Unit at The Cleveland Play House, where previous 
productions include the children's plays Pecos Bill and the Ghost Stampede, 
Pinocchio 3.5, Lake of Panthers, and the Millennium Series play, Under the 
Flesh: The Final Descent of Edgar Allan Poe. His scripts have been produced 
Off- and Off-Off-Broadway, and throughout the U.S. and Canada, including: 
The Kennedy Center, Actors Studio, Playwrights Horizons, Alliance Theatre, 
Pegasus Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Stages Repertory, CATCO, 
Actors Alley, and Dobama Theatre. His screenplay, Isolated Incidents, 
produced by Radar Pictures, begins shooting in 2003, while two other 
screenplays remain in pre-production in the labyrinth of Hollywood.

David Colacci (Director) is a Cleveland Play House Resident Director/Actor 
who also supervises The Cleveland Play House/Case Western Reserve 
University Master's program in Professional Actor Training. Cleveland Play 
House directing credits include The Infinite Regress of Human Vanity and I 
Hate Hamlet.

Pavel Dobrusky (Lighting and Scenic Design) is a CPH Associate Artist. Born 
and educated in Prague, he directed and designed Harold Pinter's Betrayal, 
Strindberg's A Dream Play and Garcia Lorca's Yerma here, and designed The 
Gifts of the Magi.

Robin Heath (Resident Sound Designer) returns to The Cleveland Play House 
after serving as Resident Sound Designer during the 1995-1999 seasons. 
 Recent Cleveland Play House designs include Lost Highway: The Music and 
Legend of Hank Williams, Frank Langella's Cyrano, Art, Jerusalem and The 
Emancipation Of Valet De Chambre.

Costume design by Amanda Whidden.

SPECIAL EVENTS SURROUNDING Bright Ideas

Pre-Curtain Dialogues sponsored by Cuyahoga County Public Library are 
3-3:45 p.m., before all Saturday, 4 p.m. matinees (Oct. 19, 26; Nov. 2, 9). 
Free.
Talk Backs are held after the Wednesday evening and Sunday matinee shows on 
Oct. 30 and Nov. 3 and allow patrons to meet the cast and other artistic 
personnel. Or, join Artistic Director Peter Hackett and the cast in The 
Cleveland Play House Club after the Friday, Nov. 8 performance.  Free.
Cleveland Play House Club Lounge Privileges The Cleveland Play House Club, 
a private dining facility, opens its doors to audiences of all Friday and 
Saturday evening performances.  Cash and major credit cards accepted.

###

Founded in 1915, The Cleveland Play House, Peter Hackett, Artistic 
Director, Dean R. Gladden, Managing Director, is America's first 
permanently established professional theatre. Over the past 86 years, more 
than 11 million people have attended The Cleveland Play House's 1,300 
productions - 95 of which were American and/or World Premieres. At 300,000 
square feet, the Philip Johnson-designed Cleveland Play House complex 
houses five performance spaces, making it the largest regional theatre 
complex in the country.

The Cleveland Play House receives support from The Ohio Arts Council.
KeyBank is the 2002-2003 Season Sponsor of The Cleveland Play House.

FACT SHEET

What:  	Bright Ideas
by Eric Coble

Where:	Drury Theatre, The Cleveland Play House, 8500 Euclid Avenue, 
Cleveland

When:		Preview Performances:	Tuesday-Thursday, October 15 - 17, 2002
		Opening Night:		Friday, October 18, 2002
		Runs Through:		Sunday, November 10, 2002

Times:		Tuesday-Friday		8:00 p.m.
		Sat. Matinees/Evenings		4:00/8:00 p.m.
		Sunday Matinee		2:00 p.m.
		Thursday, Oct. 24		1:30 p.m.
		Tuesday, Oct. 29		7:00 p.m.

Prices:		Tue-Thu. Previews		$32.00
		Tue-Thu; Sat./Sun. Matinees	$40.00
		Fri./Sat. Evenings		$47.50

Single Tickets: Call the Ticket Office, (216) 795-7000, or visit 
www.clevelandplayhouse.com
Group Tickets: Call Kim Furganson, (216) 795-7000, ext. 235