[NEohioPAL]CPT's Big [BOX] series continues this weekend with Citizenship in the Nation, January 14 - 16

[Dan Kilbane]

Join us to celebrate the work of Cleveland theatre artists!

A new play about gay boy scouts takes the stage in Cleveland Public
Theatre's Big [BOX] series this weekend.  Join us for Mike Geither's staged
reading, Citizenship in the Nation.   Prolific CPT playwright Geither
co-wrote Blue Sky Transmission: A Tibetan Book of the Dead, and wrote Arthur
33, A Field Guide to Midwestern Charms and Curses, and The Fall Liturgy.

Citizenship in the Nation
A staged reading
Written by Mike Geither
Directed by Gregory Vovos
January 14 - 16, 2005
Friday & Saturday 8pm
Sunday 3pm

In a Boy Scout troop where drinking and drug use are common, two scouts
begin a sexual relationship. When they are discovered and removed from the
troop during the course of a summer camp, each of them attempts to
understand the friendships they have formed and their urge toward violence.
Citizenship in the Nation is a staged reading of a new play by local
playwright Mike Geither, co-writer of CPT's Blue Sky Transmission:  A
Tibetan Book of the Dead.

Featuring Joel Hammer

Mike Geither (Playwright) most recently worked as collaborating playwright
on Blue Sky Transmission: A Tibetan Book of the Dead, which premiered at
CPT in 2002 and moved to LaMama in NYC. His work as a solo performer
includes The Green House (2000), A Field Guide to Midwestern Charms and
Curses (1998), The Fall Liturgy (1995) and Arthur 33 (1993). He has served
as CPT’s Playwright-in-Residence, where his plays and collaborations have
been regularly staged since 1994. Currently an Assistant Professor of
English at Cleveland State University, he has been recognized with awards
from the Ohio Arts Council and Theatre Communications Group.

Gregory Vovos (Director) is the Artistic Director of TITLEWave theatre, for
whom he was awarded a 2004 Cleveland Theatre Collective achievement award
for his direction of Wait! He has directed at theatres throughout
Cleveland. Some local directing credits include, Charge, The Zoo Story, I’m
Not Rappaport and Murder in Mind. He has directed dozens of original plays,
and is a playwright himself. Upcoming in June, he will direct Stone Cold
Dead Serious at CPT. He holds an MFA in Playwriting from the University of
Nevada, Las Vegas, and a BA in English from The Ohio State University.

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Dan Kilbane
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Cleveland Public Theatre
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Big [BOX] continues with a staged reading of Mike Geither's Citizenship in
the Nation January 14 - 16...
...and Aaron Rapljenovic and Zoe Schultz's performance duet gemINi January
21 - 23...