[NEohioPAL]special offer to Neohiopal readers: CPT's production of UNCLE TOM'S CABIN

[Dan Kilbane]

A special offer for Neohiopal subscribers!


Cleveland Public Theatre invites Neohiopal subscribers to see the Sunday,
February 8 performance of UNCLE TOM'S CABIN; OR, THE PRESERVATION OF
FAVOURED RACES IN THE STRUGGLE FOR LIFE for the special price of $5.
Immediately following the 3:00 p.m. performance, a panel discussion,
"Building Uncle Tom's Cabin," will take place in the Gordon Square Theatre.
The panel will feature the cast and creative team behind UTC as they discuss
the process of working on the production.

*****To receive the special offer, print out and bring this email to the CPT
box office on Sunday, February 8.  Box office opens at 2pm, performance at
3pm, and panel immediately following the performance.  (We recommend making
reservations for the performance, and please bring the print out with you.)

Sunday, February 8
UNCLE TOM'S CABIN @ 3pm
"Building Uncle Tom's Cabin" panel discussion immediately following the
performance
Special ticket price, $5
6415 Detroit Ave.
Cleveland, OH  44102

for reservations:  216/631-2727
www.cptonline.org

The American Classics Series
UNCLE TOM’S CABIN; or, the preservation of favoured races in the struggle
for life
Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and others
Devised by Floraine Kay and Randolph Curtis Rand at Drama Dept.
Directed by Randolph Curtis Rand
February 6 - February 28, 2004
Gordon Square Theatre

“…a smart, stunningly inventive, new adaptation….”
“In terms of theatrical power it makes more than sense, it makes art.”
- The New York Times


Based on the classic story of a kindly slave sustained by faith while tested
by vicious cruelty, 150 years have passed since Harriet Beecher Stowe’s
Uncle Tom’s Cabin was first published and time has not been kind. Uncle Tom’
s Cabin is viewed as overly sentimental propaganda. Its images (Eliza on the
ice) and characters (Uncle Tom and Topsy) were part of the popular culture,
but over time became misunderstood and misapplied.  What happened to the
esteem and popularity that kept it alive for a century?

Floraine Kay and Randolph Curtis Rand have adapted and reinterpreted this
novel for 21st century America. They examine the many layers of the story
with the keen eyes of dramatists, sociologists, and archeologists. Their
adaptation adds and combines writers as diverse as Woodrow Wilson, e. e.
cummings, and George Sand, and sources as varied as the 1852 stage play,
Stowe’s diaries, slave narratives, and the writings of Louis Gates Jr. and
Thomas Edison. By combining all of these uniquely American voices, they
manage to reveal the original urgency and political relevancy of the book’s
themes.



Dan Kilbane
Publicist
Cleveland Public Theatre
6415 Detroit Ave.
Cleveland, OH  44102
tel:  216/631-2727 ext. 203
fax:  216/631-2575
www.cptonline.org
dkilbane at cptonline.org

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