[NEohioPAL] ARTISTS: Come to CPT on MONDAY! $10 tix for tonight's performance of Open Mind Firmament!

[Beth Wood]

Cleveland Public Theatre is proud to introduce Monday evening performances!

Please join us tonight, Monday, May 24th at 7pm for Open Mind Firmament.

All tickets are only $10 each! To purchase, visit www.cptonline.org<http://www.cptonline.org>, call 216.631.2727 x 501 or buy at the door!

Open Mind Firmament: An Evening of William Butler Yeats
Adapted and Directed by Raymond Bobgan
Based on the writings of W.B. Yeats and Dr. Barton R. Friedman

Gordon Square Theatre
May 13 - June 5

Tickets on sale now!
Visit www.cptonline.org<http://www.cptonline.org> or call 216.631.2727 to purchase via phone

CPT is proud to present the World Premiere of Open Mind Firmament, a celebration of William Butler Yeats. Best known for his poetry, William Butler Yeats was also a playwright, and a founder of Ireland's national theater movement. Yeats helped banish the idea that English culture was superior to the Irish. Unlike earlier poets, whose main goal was political, Yeats' aim was to inspire new generations of Irish people by reclaiming some of the ancient Celtic myths and legends. In staging this work, CPT Executive Artistic Director Raymond Bobgan will draw from Yeats' poetry and five one-act plays: On Baile's Strand, The Green Helmet, At The Hawks Well, The Only Jealousy of Emer and The Death of Cuchulain and the interpretive writings of Dr. Friedman.


The critics are raving about Open Mind Firmament!
"Engrossing, hypnotic and viscerally literary, this homage to both Yeats and Cleveland State University Yeats scholar Barton Friedman <http://www.english.wisc.edu/eAnnotations/February2010/in_memoriam.html> entailed a year's worth of hard physical and mental work by an ensemble of 14 performers led by CPT executive artistic director Raymond Bobgan<http://www.stevewagnerphotography.com/index.php#mi=2&pt=1&pi=10000&s=3&p=0&a=0&at=0>. But let's just say it is everything theater ought to be but so rarely is: revelatory." - Tony Brown, The Plain Dealer
"Open Mind Firmament, an Evening of W.B. Yeats at Cleveland Public Theatre can be stunning, confounding, and revealing - often at the same time. But there are more than words at work in this two-hour evocation of Yeats' mythic universe centered on the Irish hero Cuchulain and his mortal enemy Aoife. Employing dance, chants, singing, and stylized gestures, Bobgan creates a rich cloak of imagery to pull the Cuchulain Cycle's five plays together (or as together as they're likely to ever get)." - Christine Howey, Cleveland Scene

Showtimes
Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:00pm, Monday, May 24 at 7:00pm
Please note: There is NO late seating for this production!

Tickets
$21 General Admission | $19 Advance Online Purchase | $2 discount for students and seniors | $10 on Thursdays and Monday

Tickets on sale now!
Visit www.cptonline.org<http://www.cptonline.org> or call 216.631.2727 to purchase via phone

Featuring: Michael Andrews-Hinders, Carly Garinger, Faye Hargate, Danielle Hisey, Brett Keyser, Anne McEvoy, Raymond McNiece, Jeremy Paul, Sheffia Randall Dooley (Member, AEA), Adam Seeholzer, Chris Seibert, Tyler Slaughter, John Stuehr and Elizabeth R. Wood

Costume Designer: Alison Garrigan
Set and Lighting Designer: Trad A Burns
Sound Designer: Richard B. Ingraham
Production Manager: Curtis L. Young
Technical Director: Chris Young
Dramaturg: Rose Sengenberger
Stage Manager: Dan Kilbane


Open Mind Firmament: An Evening of William Butler Yeats is presented with support from Sheila Friedman, The Irish American Charitable Foundation, The Ohio Irish American News and Claddagh Irish Pub.



Beth Wood
Associate Artistic Director
Cleveland Public Theatre
6415 Detroit Ave.
Cleveland, OH 44102
216.631.2727 x 206 [p]
216.631.2757 [f]
bwood at cptonline.org<mailto:bwood at cptonline.org>
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