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<p class=MsoNormal><em><i><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-style:normal'>Cleveland Public Theatre presents:</span></font></i></em><font
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</span></font><em><b><i><font size=5 face=Arial><span style='font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Osama the Hero</span></font></i></b></em><b><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><br>
</span></font></b><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>by Dennis
Kelly<br>
Directed by <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Raymond Bobgan</st1:PersonName></span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon;font-weight:bold'>The critics
are raving:<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>"Topical and thoughtful...elegiac, impressionistic but
brutally honest.... It's a brutal world and <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Osama
the Hero</span></i> looks without flinching into the heart of darkness." -
Tony Brown, <i><span style='font-style:italic'>The Cleveland Plain Dealer <o:p></o:p></span></i></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>"Director Raymond Bobgan keeps his talented cast on
point, luxuriating in the playwright's finely detailed descriptions while
painting a mural of reflexive, destructive fear." - Christine Howey, <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><i><span style='font-style:italic'>Cleveland</span></i></st1:place></st1:City><i><span
style='font-style:italic'> Scene</span></i><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>"Provocative political theatre is in such short supply
in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
Which makes experiencing <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Osama the Hero</span></i>
an even greater imperative…Under Bobgan’s explosive direction, <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Osama the Hero</span></i> is shocking, disturbing,
even baffling. But one thing is certain. You won’t leave your seat throughout
the 90-minute rant and not because there isn’t any intermission.” --
Fran Heller, The <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cleveland</st1:place></st1:City>
Jewish News<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>"Raymond Bobgan brings a powerful cast and a focused
clarity to Dennis Kelly's poetic problem play about violence and paranoia in
the tragic encounter between a misfit teenager and neighborhood vigilantes....
It's both intense and violent, though not gratuitously so, and well worth the
discussion it's likely to prompt in the car on the way home." - Linda
Eisenstein, <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Cool Cleveland<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>“A powerful tragedy for our times.... Are you
listening, Aristotle? It may not be what you had in mind but it will do very
well for this troubled world." - Jean Seiter Cummins, The Free Times<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;
font-weight:bold'>Onstage now through November 3<br>
James Levin Theatre<br>
<br>
</span></font></b><em><b><i><font color=maroon face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial;color:maroon;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal'>How
does the fear of terrorism impact our lives?</span></font></i></b></em><font
color=maroon face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;color:maroon'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Join
Cleveland Public Theatre for this explosive and moving play. <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Gary</st1:City></st1:place> inflames his high
school with an unorthodox response to a homework assignment. Garages are
blowing up all over the neighborhood. Someone must shoulder the blame. A
rollercoaster of a play by one of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Britain</st1:country-region></st1:place>'s hottest writers, <em><i><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Osama the Hero</span></font></i></em>
is a raw and provocative new work. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Do you
feel secure living in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Cleveland</st1:City></st1:place>?
What are you willing to risk in order to feel that your family is safe?
Whether it is sexual predator announcements in the mail, neighborhood crime or
terrorism, we all can feel threatened. <em><i><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'>Osama the Hero</span></font></i></em> delves into our
personal need to feel safe where we live and exposes the divide between our
primal drives and our conscious compassion.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><em><b><i><font size=3 color=maroon face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;color:maroon;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal'>Osama the
Hero is suggested for mature audiences only due to language and violence.</span></font></i></b></em><b><i><font
color=maroon face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;color:maroon;font-weight:
bold;font-style:italic'> </span></font></i></b><font face=Arial><span
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<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on"><strong><b><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'>Ohio</span></font></b></strong></st1:State></st1:place><strong><b><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'> and Regional Premiere</span></font></b></strong><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'><br>
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Tickets on sale now! <br>
Buy by phone at 216.631.2727 or buy online at <a
href="http://www.cptonline.org/">www.cptonline.org</a> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Featuring
Mark Cipra, Katelyn Cornelius, Benjamin Gates, <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Chris
Seibert</st1:PersonName> and Jeffrey A. Wisniewski <br>
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Director: <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Raymond Bobgan</st1:PersonName><br>
Set and Lighting Designer: Trad A Burns<br>
Costume Designer: Alison Garrigan<br>
Sound Designer: James Kosmatka<br>
Stage Manager: Faye Hargate<br>
Special Effects: Joshua Brown<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Onstage
now through November 3<br>
James Levin Theatre<br>
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Showtimes: Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm, Sundays at 3:00pm<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Tickets:
$15 General Admission | $12 Students and Seniors | $10 Thursdays<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Tickets
available now! Buy by phone at 216.631.2727 or buy online at <a
href="http://www.cptonline.org/">www.cptonline.org</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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