[NEohioPAL]Playwright Matthew Edison to Visit Dobama Theatre Sunday, October 19th

[Marjorie Preston, PR/Marketing Director]

Dobama Theatre Talkback with The Domino Heart Playwright Matthew Edison
Sunday, October 19th – Free to Ticketholders

Dobama Theatre is proud to present the United States premiere of The Domino
Heart by Matthew Edison, directed by Joyce Casey.  The Domino Heart
premiered in March 2003 at the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto.  After Dobama’s
7:30 p.m. Sunday, October 19th performance, Edison will be available to
speak to audience members about the play.  The talkback is free to
ticketholders.

Edison is an actor and writer. His first play, The Domino Heart, was
presented at the Tarragon theatre in Toronto 2002.  The play was nominated
for 2 Dora Mavor Moore awards, including Outstanding New Play, and was
recently translated into French by Manon Boduin.  He is a 3-time recipient
of the National Art Centre Young Playwrights award for his plays, Feeding
the Roaches, The Flood, and The Jar lid.  Other plays include, Stranger
Family, Shovelhead, and a short play, Return to Family.  He is currently
playing Mozart in Peter Schaffer’s Amadeus in Toronto and adapting the
novel, The Law of Similars, for film. Edison is a graduate of The Stella
Adler Conservatory of Acting in New York.  He lives in Toronto.

About the play:
Cara Fortree (Carla Dunlavey), university professor and mother, is widowed
when her husband is suddenly killed in a car accident.  Reverend Mortimer
Wright (Glenn Colerider*), is sleepless in his hospital room.  Young
advertising executive Leo Juarez (Fabio Polanco*) is camped out in his
corporate office in Chicago.  In the night sky above, a helicopter carries
the organ that will connect them all.

*Audio-described performance on Sunday, October 26th at 2:30 p.m.

featuring Glenn Colerider*, Carla Dunlavey and Fabio Polanco*
*member Actors’ Equity Association

Performances:
October 17-November 9
Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8:00 p.m.
Sunday 10/19 at 7:30 p.m.; 10/26, 11/2, 11/9 at 2:30 p.m.  Tickets $11-20

Information: (216) 932-6838.  Reservations: (216) 932-3396.

Coming Soon!
NEW VOICES FOR THE THEATRE
October 20th, 21st and 22nd -- 7:30
New works by area writers Joel Hammer, Sanrda Perlman and Sarah Morton

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Dobama Theatre is proud to present its 2003-2004 Season! Four OHIO premiere
productions, one U.S. premiere and one WORLD premiere!

October 17-November 9  The Domino Heart by Matthew Edison, directed by Joyce
Casey – U.S. Premiere!
We meet a trio of characters connected by the miracle of modern heart
transplant surgery – including the widow of a man killed in a car crash, a
minister and a young advertising executive.  Cara Fortree, university
professor and mother, is widowed when her husband is suddenly killed in a
car accident.  Reverend Mortimer Wright is sleepless in his hospital room.
Young advertising executive Leo Juarez is camped out in his corporate office
in Chicago.  In the night sky above, a helicopter carries the organ that
will connect them all.

November 28-December 21	V-E Day by local playwright Faye Sholiton, directed
by Jacqi Loewy  Winner of the Arlene R. and William P. Lewis Playwriting
Contest at BYU!  World Premiere!

January 16-February 8	Raised in Captivity by Nicky Silver, directed Russ
Borski  Ohio Premiere!

March 5-28	In the Heart of America by MacArthur Grant winner Naomi Wallace,
directed by Sonya Robbins  Ohio Premiere!

April 23-May 16  The Last Five Years  by Tony Award winner Jason Robert
Brown, directed by Victoria Bussert and featuring Scott Plate and Carol
Dunne  Ohio Premiere!

Dobama Theatre is located at 1846 Coventry Road in Cleveland Heights.

Single ticket prices: $11-20.
Subscriptions: (216) 932-6838.
Reservations: (216) 932-3396.