[NEohioPAL] Press Release" ENSEMBLE THEATRE SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT!

[Ensemble Theatre]

PRESS INFORMATION
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CLEVELAND
August 5, 2013

*(T) 216-321-2930 *
*CONTACT: info at ensemble-theatre.org*

*Theatrical redux. Cleveland resurgent. *

Announcing...*TheatreCLE*.
Great Scripts. Cleveland Artists.

In the *Playground Theatre* and beyond. Produced by Ensemble Theatre.

For Ensemble Theatre’s 34th consecutive season “Love” is all the Mainstage
season needs while *The Playground Theatre* births our theatrical “Second
Season”. Ensemble also introduces *TheatreCLE Summer* (on the main stage)
and *TheatreCLE* *on tour!*

*TheatreCLE: "The Second Season" *
*All this Intimacy *by Rajiv Joseph.* (The Playground) *
Directed by Aaron Elersich
*October 17th @7pm, 18th @10pm, 19th @6pm, 20th @7pm, 24th, 25th, 26th ,
27th @ 7pm. *

Ty Greene is a normal guy with three very big problems. In an unprecedented
(for him) run of promiscuity, Ty has managed to impregnate three women in
the span of one week: His ex-girlfriend, his 40-something married next-door
neighbor, and his 18 year-old student. In this edgy comedy by playwright
Rajiv Joseph, Ty's problems illuminate every triumph and failure of his
life, and as the women in his world converge and figure out what's
happened, Ty realizes that his life is adrift, and that he only has a
limited time to try to piece it back together. All This Intimacy, which
according to The New York Times has "a certain can't-look-away pull," is a
comedy about friendship and lust and how the two don't mix.
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Frankenstein* adapted from the Mary Shelly Novel by Oakley Hall III *(Special
Main stage Run) *
Directed by Ian Wolfgang Hinz
*October 25th, 26th @ 9pm, 27th @ 2pm. Halloween - Oct. 31st @ 7pm. Nov.
1st, 2nd @7pm. *

In the famous novel, Victor Frankenstein is a young scientist who,
believing he has found the secret to creating life, builds and animates a
monstrous creature. However, upon seeing it alive, Frankenstein is repulsed
by his creation and abandons it. But Frankenstein’s monster survives on its
own and e:ducates himself, soon learning that due to his monstrous
appearance, he will never integrate himself into human society. He vows to
take his revenge on Doctor Frankenstein, both for abandoning him and for
thrusting this miserable, monstrous life upon him in the first place. The
play, while not a “horror” show, embraces the darkness and violence of the
original tale, combining it with exalted language to create a grim but
faithful adaptation.

*Eugene Ionesco’s The Chairs & Exit the King **(The Playground)

The Chairs*
Directed by Stephen Vasse-Hansell

Originally written in 1952 and subtitled by the author as "a tragic farce",
The Chairs was produced on Broadway during the 1998 season in the Theatre
de Complicite/Royal Court production and acclaimed an absurdist play of the
first order by a master innovator of the genre. The premise: an elderly
couple spend their time collecting and inventorying chairs only to be
overcome by the very objects that give their lives meaning.

*Exit the King *
Director TBA

First produced in 1963 starring Alec Guinness and successfully revived to
great acclaim on Broadway in 2009, this absurdist exploration of ego and
mortality is set in the crumbling throne-room of the palace in an unnamed
country where King Berenger the First has only the duration of the play to
live. Once, it seemed he ruled over an immense empire and commanded great
armies, now his kingdom has shrunk to the confines of his garden wall.
Refusing to accept his end, he is attended by his present and former Queens
who must help him face the final inevitable truth of life: death.

"The imagination itself is original, bizarre, powerful. The most moving of
all Ionesco's plays and, if only from the width of its sympathies. It is
incomparably his greatest work." - The New York Times
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**The Chairs and Exit the King-Running concurrently:
January 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 17th, 18th,19th @ 7pm*


*TheatreCLE Summer **(on the Mainstage.) *

*Voodoo Macbeth *by William Shakespeare
Director TBA - the 1936 Federal Theatre Project Script Rebooted - *June
2014 *

MacBeth dramatizes the corrosive psychological and political effects
produced when evil is chosen as a way to fulfill the ambition for power.
The central idea behind Orson Welles's 1936 production was to perform the
text straight, but to use costumes and sets that alluded to Haiti in the
19th century, specifically during the reign of the slave-turned-emperor
Henri Christophe.
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The Three Penny Opera* by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill
Directed by Ian Wolfgang Hinz – *August 2014 *

Set in a marginally-anachronistic London, the play focuses on Macheath, an
amoral, antiheroic criminal. Macheath (or Mack the Knife) marries Polly
Peachum. This displeases her father, who controls the beggars of London,
and he endeavours to have Macheath hanged. His attempts are hindered by the
fact that the Chief of Police, Tiger Brown, is Macheath's old army comrade.
Still, Peachum exerts his influence and eventually gets Macheath arrested
and sentenced to hang. Macheath escapes this fate via a deus ex machina
moments before the execution when, in an unrestrained parody of a happy
ending, a messenger from the Queen arrives to pardon Macheath and grant him
the title of Baron. The Threepenny Opera is a work of epic theatre. It
challenges conventional notions of property as well as those of theatre.
The Threepenny Opera is also an early example of the modern musical comedy
genre. Its score is deeply influenced by jazz. The orchestration involves a
small ensemble with a good deal of doubling-up on instruments.
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TheatreCLE on tour: *

*The Unofficial Almost True Campfire Tales Of Put-In-Bay* by Tyler Whidden
Directed by Ian Wolfgang Hinz Starring: Katie Nabors, James Rankin and
Mitch Rose August 31st and September 7th @ 4pm Put-In-Bay, Ohio
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Lizard Play* created and performed by Carol Laursen and Anne McEvoy
Directed by Celeste Cosentino
Dates and locations TBA.

Join us for our first full season in the intimate* 50 seat Playground
Theatre* located adjacent to the main stage.

Last season The Playground hosted “Sexual Perversity in Chicago” by David
Mamet, The Colombi New Plays Festival 10-minutes and readings series, a
LakeErie Inc. puppet performance, as well as the equity showcase “The Value
of Names” by Jeffrey Sweet produced by Skip Corris and Paul Slimak.

For Subscription and Ticket Information, please call our Special Events Box
Office at* 216. <216.202.0938>202.0938*
You can also email us at: tickets at ensemble-theatre.org.
You can follow the TheatreCLE @ Ensemble season at: www.theatrecle.org

Subscriptions for the *“TheatreCLE @ Ensemble” -the Second Season* are
$50.  Individual Tickets are $15 each.
You can purchase online on our website (box office tab) or *CLICK
HERE!.*<https://squareup.com/market/ensemble-theatre-of-cleveland/second-season>
*Subscriptions and Single Tickets for “TheatreCLE Summer on the Mainstage”
will go on sale soon! Stay tuned!! *

For more information on "*TheatreCLE on tour*" please email us at
tours at ensemble-theatre.org and leave us a contact name, phone # and email.

*We look forward to seeing you in our audiences!*

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*2013-2014 SEASON. *
*"ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE"*
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*ANIMALS OUT OF PAPER*
by Rajiv Joseph
Directed by Celeste Cosentino
*September 27th through October 20th.*

*PRELUDE TO A KISS *
by Craig Lucas
Directed by Martin Friedman
*November 21st through December 15th*

*KNOCK ME A KISS *
By Charles Smith
Directed by Carolyn Jackson Smith
*January 31 through Febraury 23rd. *
Winner of 9 2011 AUDELCO awards.

*COLOMBI NEW PLAYS FESTIVAL*
This will be the month of March.  Specific Dates and shows TBA.

*BEYOND THE HORIZON*
by Eugene O'Neil
Directed by Celeste Cosentino
*April 18th through May 11th*
O'Neill's 1st Pulitzer Prize Winner-1920.

*We look forward to seeing you in our audience!*
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*TICKETS, SUBSCRIPTIONS, & **INFORMATION *
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