[NEohioPAL] GLTF World Premiere at Heights’ Alcazar

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Great Lakes Theater Festival World Premiere at Heights’ Alcazar

 

 

On Tuesday, February 19 at 8:00pm, Cleveland Heights’ historic dwelling and bed-&-breakfast, The Alcazar, proudly hosts the world premiere performance of the Great Lakes Theater Festival’s SEEING RED in its Grand Ballroom.  Free, and open to the public, SEEING RED dramatizes actual testimony of Ronald Regan, Hallie Flanagan, Paul Robeson and Arthur Miller before the United States House Committee on Un-American Activities, formed in 1934 to “investigate Nazi propaganda and certain other propaganda activities.”  Abolished in 1975, this Committee subpoenaed American citizens to appear and testify before it, and pressured them to name names of purported communists, under threat of “blacklisting.”  

 

SEEING RED, written by GLTF Director of Education Daniel Hahn and directed by GLTF Associate Artistic Director, Andrew May, explores the question of, “what happens when government oversteps the bounds of its power and infringes upon the rights of citizens?”  This seventy-minute program, including post-performance discussion, is being produced and presented in support of the Festival’s forthcoming mainstage production of Arthur Miller’s THE CRUCIBLE, which he wrote as an allegory for these HUAC Congressional “witch-hunting” hearings of the ‘40’s.

 

SEEING RED is recommended for ages junior high and older.  Light refreshments will be served at the conclusion of the program.  The Alcazar is located at 2450 Derbyshire Road, Cleveland Heights.  Bring older children;  bring friends; bring neighbors to experience this important theater piece.  Call 216-321-5400 for directions or more information.

 

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