[NEohioPAL] Details and registration for Lit Cleveland's FREE staged reading at the Humanities Festival

[dale.heinen at gmail.com]

Lit Cleveland is excited to announce the program for its upcoming staged
reading at Cleveland State University's Student Center Ballroom during this
year's Cleveland Humanities Festival on Saturday March 17th and Sunday March
18th at 7 pm. A reception with the actors and writers will follow each
performance. 250 people attended the performances last year, so please:

 

Take a minute to register in advance:
http://www.litcleveland.org/cleveland-humanities-festival-staged-reading.htm
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The hour-long performance, directed by Dale Heinen, is titled I Will Sing
for You: Writers on Health, features original work by Northeast Ohio writers
Nicholas Cohen, Diane Ferri, Aubrey Hirsch, Ray McNiece, Darlene Montonaro,
Robin Pease, Mimi Plevin-Foust, Susan Rakow, Jane Richmond, Elaine
Schleiffer, Karen Schubert, Jill Sell, Mary Weems, and Joe Kapitan. 

 

The cast is Davis Aguila, Andrea Belser, David Bugher, Anne McEvoy, and
Kimberly Sias. 
 
Lit Cleveland's call for submissions earlier this year garnered over 180
poems, stories, and plays from writers throughout Northeast Ohio. The
moving, often funny works explore issues such as aging, cancer, addiction,
mental health, race and poverty, and the inequities in our current health
care system.
 
Diane Ferri's moving essay "I Will Sing for You" recounts her final memories
of time spent with her aging mother. Philip Metres reflects on finding peace
in the midst of a painful concussion as well as the current presidential
administration in his essay "Refuge." Playwright Mary Weems encounters the
tragedy of addiction in her piece "Pill/Box." Ray McNiece playfully taunts
death in his poem "The Bone Orchard Conga," while Joe Kaptian humorously
highlights the hypocrisy of health care coverage in his one act play
"Minimal Coverage." 
 
"Reading the selected pieces, it's striking how relevant, and often how
American, these stories are," said director Dale Heinen. "It's a fun,
intriguing challenge to craft performances from diverse forms of writing
like poetry and essay, and I look forward to sharing our discoveries with
festival audiences."
 
"We're thrilled to have worked out a program for this year's performance,
and are truly grateful to have received such outstanding, powerful work from
so many people living in this region," added Lee Chilcote, Executive
Director of Lit Cleveland. "We'd like to thank everyone who went out on a
limb to share their stories with us, and look forward to what we hope will
be a powerful and insightful performance."

 

To ensure a seat, register here:
http://www.litcleveland.org/cleveland-humanities-festival-staged-reading.htm
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This program is made possible with the support of the George Gund
Foundation, the Baker Nord Center for the Humanities, Cleveland Humanities
Festival, Cleveland State University, and Margaret Wong and Associates. 

 

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