[NEohioPAL]The Domino Heart U.S. Premiere at Dobama Theatre Friday! Through November 9th!

[Marjorie Preston, PR/Marketing Director]

Dobama Theatre presents
the United States Premiere of
The Domino Heart
by Matthew Edison
directed by Joyce Casey
October 17-November 9, 2003
U.S. Premiere!
Three characters connected by the beat of the same heart.

Dobama Theatre is proud to present the United States premiere of The Domino
Heart by Matthew Edison.  The Domino Heart premiered in March 2003 at the
Tarragon Theatre in Toronto.  Dobama Theatre is the first theatre in the
United States to show it.  Joyce Casey, Dobama’s Artistic Director, will
direct this U.S. Premiere.

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.

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

Saturday, October 18th -- talkback with Domino Heart cast members and
director Joyce Casey after the 8:00 p.m. performance.

Talkback with Toronto Playwright Matthew Edison! Sunday, October 19th, after
the 7:30 p.m. performance of The Domino Heart, speak to cast members,
director Joyce Casey and playwright Matthew Edison, author of The Domino
Heart – Free to Ticketholders!

Saturday, October 25th and Thursday, October 30th -- post-performance
presentation and Q&A session with staff of LifeBanc, organ procurement
organization for Northeast Ohio on the need for organ donations.  An organ
donor and recipient will discuss the human side of transplant surgery.

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

Saturday, November 1st -- post-performance discussion with Cleveland Clinic
Bioethicist Katrina A. Bramstedt, PhD.  "Ethical Considerations of
Transplant Surgery"  Bramstedt is also a member of the Heart Transplant
Selection Committee of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.

In DOBAMA THEATRE’s Warren Smith Gallery
Drawing from the Heart
Life drawings from the Murray Hill Group
October 17-November 9

Monday, October 20th, Tuesday the 21st and Wednesday the 22nd at 7:30 p.m.
New Voices for the Theatre
Readings of New Work by Established Cleveland Playwrights!
$5 suggested donation at the door

For more information on any of these events, call Dobama at (216) 932-6838.
For reservations, call Dobama’s box office at (216) 932-3396.

Marjorie Preston
PR/Marketing Director
Dobama Theatre
(216) 932-6838
www.dobama.org

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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.