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<P align=center>Humor and Fantasy in the Face of Terror in</P></FONT><I><FONT
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<P align=center>Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me</P></I></FONT><FONT face=Helvetica>
<P align=center>at Weathervane Community Playhouse Nov. 1 to
17</P></B></FONT><FONT face=Helvetica size=2>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Weathervane Community Playhouse</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1301 Weathervane Lane</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Akron, OH 44313-5186</FONT></DIV>
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size=2><STRONG>330-836-2626</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<P>Weathervane Community Playhouse presents Frank McGuinness’s Tony-nominated
drama, <B><I>Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me</B></I>. The production opens
Thursday, Nov. 1, and runs through Saturday, Nov. 17, 2007, in the Playhouse’s
John L. Dietz Theater.</P><I>
<P>Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me</I> is set in a basement in Beirut, Lebanon,
where three men have been kidnapped and are being held hostage by unseen Arabs.
The three men – an Irish journalist, an English academic and an American doctor
– fight the fear and boredom of their plight through a mixture of fantasy and
humor, creating a coping mechanism in the face of terror.</P>
<P>As they fight for their survival, the men also engage in a battle of wits to
overcome their nationalistic resentments and personal differences. The men find
that communication creates strength and even a sort of solidarity. Survival and
sanity both prove elusive in this thought-provoking drama.</P>
<P>Under the direction of <B>Jim Fippin</B>, <I>Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me</I>
is presented in Weathervane’s John L. Dietz Theater, an intimate 50-seat "black
box" theater. For the Playhouse’s 2007-2008 season, the Dietz Theater will house
this and one other production, Mitch Albom’s comedy <I>And the Winner Is</I>,
which will be staged in May 2008. The Dietz Theater’s intimate configurations
make it ideal for plays and musicals that are not suited, for either artistic or
financial reasons, to the Playhouse’s 249-seat Grace Hower Crawford Main
Stage.</P><I>
<P>Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me</I> is presented by a generous grant from
Margaret J. Dietz. The production contains adult language and mature
themes.</P></FONT><B><U><FONT face=Helvetica size=2>
<P>ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT</P></U>
<P>Frank McGuinness</B> was born in 1953 in Ireland’s County Donegal and was
educated at University College Dublin. For the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, he wrote
<I>The Factory Girls</I> (1982), <I>Bag Lady </I>(1985) and <I>Observe the Sons
of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme</I> (1986). The latter play won several
awards including the <I>London Evening Standard</I>’s Most Promising Playwright
Award and the London Fringe Awards for Best Playwright. In addition, he wrote
the screenplay adaptation for fellow Irishman Brian Friel’s <I>Dancing at
Lughnasa </I>in 1998. McGuinness is now a writer-in-residence who lectures at
University College Dublin.</P><B><U>
<P>ABOUT THE PLAY</P></B></U><I>
<P>Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me</I> opened at London’s Hampstead Theatre in 1992
and starred Alec McCowen, Stephen Rea and Hugh Quarshie. It then transferred to
the West End's Vaudeville Theatre for a seven-week run from September to October
in 1992.</P>
<P>The original New York production ran for 232 performances from November of
1992 to June of 1993 at New York's Booth Theatre. It was nominated for the Tony
Award for Best Play of the 1992-93 Broadway season (losing to <I>Angels in
America: Millennium Approaches</I>). Stephen Rea, who played Edward, was
nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play, and he also won the 1993
<I>Theatre World</I> Award for his performance.</P><B><U>
<P>ABOUT THE CAST</P></U>
<P>GREG BEALER</B> of Akron plays Edward </P>
<P>Greg was first seen at Weathervane in <I>Gross Indecency</I> several seasons
ago. Other credits include Guildenstern in <I>Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are
Dead,</I> Bottom in <I>A Midsummer Night’s Dream</I> and Dogberry in <I>Much Ado
about Nothing.</P></I><B>
<P>DANE LEE</B> of Stow plays Adam</P>
<P>Dane was seen this past summer at Stan Hywet in the Ohio Shakespeare
Festival’s production of <I>Best Little Whorehouse in Texas,</I> Antipholus of
Syracuse in <I>A Comedy of Errors</I> and a clown in <I>Othello.</P></I><B>
<P>RICHARD WORSWICK</B> of Akron plays Michael</P>
<P>Richard works as a model for commercial, industrial and print advertising and
also does voice-overs for commercials. For Weathervane, Richard has taken on
roles in <I>Noises Off, The Dinner Party, The Mystery of Irma Vep, The Laramie
Project, The Chosen</I> and <I>The Sisters Rosensweig.</P></I><B><U>
<P>ABOUT THE DIRECTOR</P></U>
<P>JIM FIPPIN</B> makes his Weathervane directorial debut with <I>Someone Who’ll
Watch Over Me</I>. He has been acting, directing and otherwise engaged in
theater in northeast Ohio for more than 20 years. As the Artistic Director of
Coach House Theatre, Jim staged productions of <I>Chapter Two, Betrayal, Last of
the Red Hot Lovers, Art, Private Lives, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? </I>and
<I>A Life in the Theatre.</P></I></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Weathervane Community Playhouse</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1301 Weathervane Lane</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Akron, OH 44313-5186</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>330-836-2626</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>