[NEohioPAL]Robin Hood at Solon Center for the Arts

[Megan Brack]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

February 24, 2005

Contact:	                Karen Prasser
		Executive Director
		Solon Center for the Arts
		440.337.1400
		kprasser at solonohio.org=20


SOLON CHAMBER AND KIWANIS CO-SPONSOR ROBIN HOOD -THIEF OF HEARTS AT ARTS =
CENTER

Solon Chamber of Commerce and Solon Kiwanis Club will once again co-present=
 a production by Cleveland Signstage Theatre at Solon Center for the Arts =
for approximately 400 second grade students and their teachers from Solon =
City Schools.  This year=92s production is Robin Hood - Thief of Hearts.  =
Also attending the shows on March 3 and 4 are 120 students from the =
American Sign Language Club of Solon High School.   =20

Last year Solon Chamber of Commerce and Solon Kiwanis Club co-presented a =
performance of Matilda by Cleveland Signstage Theatre. =20

Robin Hood may be the =93Prince of Thieves,=94 but he meets his match when =
he steals the Heart Pendant belonging to the fair Lady Marian. This =
wonderful children=92s show is presented using the special beauty of =
American Sign Language and spoken English simultaneously by deaf and =
hearing actors. Visually the stage is filled with the movement of hands =
and bodies, yet every word is spoken to make sure that all audience =
members don=92t miss a thing!

Signstage has won four local Emmy Awards and two Cleveland Drama Critics =
Circle Awards.  In 1991, Signstage was the first recipient of the Ohio =
Governor=92s Award for Arts Outreach.  Internationally, the theatre has =
represented the United Stages at the 8th International Pantomime Festival =
of the Deaf in Brno, Czechoslovakia and the Jerash Festival in Amman, =
Jordan.  In 2002, Signstage performed it=92s deaf theatre adaptation of =
Snow White at DeafWay II in Washington D.C., the largest most well =
attended deaf arts festival in the world.

Public performances of Robin Hood - Thief of Hearts are Friday, March 4 at =
7:30 pm and Saturday, March 5 at 2:00 pm and 7:30 pm. Tickets are $8 for =
adults and $6 for students and seniors.=20

Solon Center for the Arts is located at 6315 SOM Center Road.  For more =
information on this or any other classes in art, music, theater and dance, =
call 440.337.1400.

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Megan Brack
Solon Center for the Arts=20
6315 SOM Center Road
Solon, OH 44139

mbrack at solonohio.org

440.337.1400