[NEohioPAL]GLTF - Free Touring Production Debut - Met By Moonlight - Join us TONIGHT!

[Todd Krispinsky]

Hi all,

It is a pleasure to invite you to the opening night of Great Lakes Theater 
Festival's 2003 touring production, Met By Moonlight.  The production 
features 4 local Cleveland actors and was commissioned by Cleveland-based 
playwright Margaret Lynch.  The production was directed by GLTF Director of 
Education, Daniel Hahn.  We will kick off the 19 venue tour this evening at 
John Carroll University and would love to see you in the audience.  I will 
paste the complete tour schedule and press release below for your reference. 
  Please feel free to pass the info along to friends and colleagues.  Thanks 
in advance.

Hope to see you tonight or at one of the other 18 venues near you.

Todd S. Krispinsky
Associate Director of Education
Great Lakes Theater Festival

OPENING NIGHT TONIGHT!
John Carroll University
Marinello Little Theater (Within the Student Center/Rec Center)
Wednesday, March 26, 2003 @ 7:30 p.m.
20700 North Park Blvd, University Heights
Information:  (216) 397-4191

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For Immediate Release

Great Lakes Theater Festival Presents
Met By Moonlight
A Free Touring Production

Met By Moonlight is a free theater production that will tour to 19 venues 
throughout Northern Ohio between March 26 and April 16. Written by Cleveland 
playwright Margaret Lynch, this world premiere play will be directed by GLTF 
Director of Education Daniel Hahn.  Charged with humor and history and 
grounded in Shakespeare, Met By Moonlight utilizes the classic text of 
Shakespeare’s masterpiece A Midsummer Night’s Dream to ignite a dialogue 
about the role of the theater in providing a place where our most profound 
human longings can find a voice.  The sixty-minute performance features four 
local actors: Allen Branstein, John Fairbairn, Todd Mengay and Diane Mull.

In Met By Moonlight, three dreamers from different times and places fall 
asleep and dream the same dream: it's up to each to stage Shakespeare's A 
Midsummer Night's Dream, under ridiculously trying circumstances.  For two 
of the three, it's a dream come true.  For the third, it's a nightmare. 
Sarah, a young woman in 17th century England, longs to become an actress at 
a time when theater is banned by a Puritan government.  Robert, an American 
soldier during the Revolutionary War, is eager to stage the play to ward off 
the misery, boredom, and fear of a harsh winter at Valley Forge.  But for 
Frank, a college student ca. 2003 and an avid player of online computer 
games, theater is an annoying anachronism.  Shakespearean mistaken 
identities and comic misunderstandings find new resonance as the three dream 
worlds both mesh and collide.  Each performance of Met By Moonlight is 
followed by a discussion about the issues raised in the production.

All performances are free. (See schedule following.)  A complete listing of 
tour dates and times is available online at www.greatlakestheater.org.  All 
performances are subject to change.  Call individual sites to confirm dates 
and times.

Met By Moonlight is part of Awaken the Dream, a series of public programs 
surrounding Great Lakes Theater Festival's production of William 
Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night’s Dream (April 30-May 11, Ohio Theatre, 
Playhouse Square Center; tickets available online at tickets.com or by 
calling (216) 241-6000). Held throughout Northern Ohio from March through 
May 2003, Awaken the Dream features:  Sprits of a Different Sort - a 
students playwrights’ festival, Bardstock FM – a radio program spotlighting 
original student music, Perchance to Dream – an intensive teacher workshop, 
Playnotes - a pre-show discussion series and much more.  All programs are 
free and open to the public.  For more information and a free brochure, 
contact the GLTF education department at (216) 241-5490 x317.

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Media Contact:
Todd S. Krispinsky
Associate Director of Education
216/241-5490 x317

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Met By Moonlight
Great Lakes Theater Festival Outreach Tour Performance Schedule

John Carroll University
Marinello Little Theater
Wednesday, March 26, 2003 @ 7:30 p.m.
20700 North Park Blvd, University Heights
Information:  (216) 397-4191

Akron/Summit Co. Public Library
Nordonia Hills Branch
Thursday, March 27, 2003 @ 7:30 p.m.
9458 Olde Eight Road, Northfield
Information:  (330) 467-8595

Lutheran East High School
Friday, March 28, 2003 @ 7:30 p.m.
3565 Mayfield Rd., Cleveland Heights
Information:  (216) 382-6100

Clague Playhouse
Sunday, March 30, 2003 @ 3:00 p.m.
1371 Clague Road, Westlake
Information:  (440) 331-0403

Lorain Catholic High School
Monday, March 31, 2003 @ 1:00 p.m.
760 Tower Blvd., Lorain
Information:  (440) 282-8216

Oberlin Public Library
Tuesday, April 1, 2003 @ 3:00 p.m.
65 South Main Street, Oberlin
Information:  (440) 775-4790

The University of Akron
Martin University Center
Thursday, April 3, 2003 @ 3:30 p.m.
105 Fir Hill Street, Akron
Information:  (330) 972-7601

Cleveland Sight Center
Friday, April 4, 2003 @ 1:00 p.m.
1909 East 101st Street, Cleveland
Information:  (216) 791-8118 x226

Saint Peter Church
Sunday, April 6, 2003 @ 3:00 p.m.
1533 East Seventeenth Street, Cleveland
Information:  (216) 556-4618

Karamu House
Monday, April 7, 2003 @ 7:30 p.m.
2355 East 89th Street, Cleveland, Ohio
Information:  (216) 795-7070


Lorain County Community College
Stocker Center – Studio Theater
Tuesday, April 8, 2003 @ 7:30 p.m.
1005 Abbe Road North, Elyria, Ohio
Information:  1-800-995-5222 Ext. 7120

Bay Village High School
Wednesday, April 9, 2003 @ 11:55 a.m.
29230 Wolf Road, Bay Village, Ohio
Information:  (440) 899-5800

Akron Summit County Library
Portage Lakes Branch
Thursday, April 10, 2003 @ 6:30 p.m.
4261 Manchester Road, Akron
Information:  (330) 644-7050

St. Augustine Chruch
Walsh Hall
Friday, April 11, 2003 @ 7:30 p.m.
2486 West 14th Street, Cleveland, Ohio
Information: (216) 781-5880

Cleveland Heights Main Library
Sunday, April 13, 2003 @ 2:30 p.m.
2345 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights
Information:  (216) 932-3600 Ext 291

Lorain Admiral King High School
Monday, April 14, 2003 @ 1:30 p.m.
2600 Ashland Avenue
Lorain, Ohio
Information:  (440) 282-9191

Cleveland Public Library
Martin Luther King Jr. Branch
Tuesday, April 15, 2003 @ 11:00
1962 Stokes Blvd., Cleveland
Information:  (216) 623-7018

Lorain Southview High School
Wednesday, April 14, 2003 @ 1:35 p.m.
2270 East 42nd Street, Lorain
Information:  (440) 277-7271

Lake Erie College
CK Rickel Theater
Wednesday, April 16, 2003 @ 7:30 p.m.
391 West Washington Street, Painesville, Ohio
Information:  (440) 639-4746











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