[NEohioPAL]V- E Day by Faye Sholiton -- World Premiere at Dobama in November!

[Marjorie Preston, PR/Marketing Director]

Coming in November:
Dobama presents the World Premiere of
V-E Day
by Faye Sholiton
directed by Jacqi Loewy
November 28-December 21, 2003

V-E Day is the story of 79-year-old Evelyn Bergfeld, who enjoyed her
happiest years during World War II.  Following the war, she went through the
motions of marriage, motherhood, and suburban life.  On May 8th**, decades
after the war is over, a man appears with a box of World War II-era
newsletters.  His visit transports Evelyn – and her daughter – back to a
time when everything seemed possible.

Beachwood playwright and journalist Faye Sholiton traces the origins of V-E
Day to the day, in 1992, when she was assigned to write about a box of old
newsletters that a reader had dropped off at the Cleveland Jewish News. The
monthly publication known as “Hello Again” had circulated to Cleveland GIs
as a morale booster. It was filled with hometown gossip, as well as letters
from hundreds of grateful “subscribers.” She was moved by the youthful
voices of kids whom she later knew as her parents’ friends and her friends’
parents. V-E Day is her dramatic salute to their generation.

The script, which was developed in the Playwrights Unit at the Cleveland
Play House, will be read in the Play House Next Stage Festival on November
1st, before its Dobama premiere. In August, V-E Day was named First Prize
winner in Brigham Young University’s 2003 Arlene R. and William P. Lewis
Playwriting Contest.

**V-E Day, May 8th, commemorated Victory in Europe in 1945.

featuring Jen Clifford, Mitchell Fields*, Holly Humes, Juliette Regnier*,
Rhoda Rosen, and Michael John Sestili
*member Actors’ Equity Association

Performances:
November 28-December 21
Thurs., Fri. and Sat. at 8:00 p.m.; Sun. 11/30 at 7:30 p.m.; 12/7, 12/14,
and 12/21 at 2:30 p.m.
Tickets $11-$20

Info: (216) 932-6838.  Reservations: (216) 932-3396.
Dobama Theatre is located at 1846 Coventry Road in Cleveland Heights.
V-E Day is generously sponsored by the Cleveland Jewish News.

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Dobama Theatre is proud to present:
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 a single heart – 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.