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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-outline-level: 1"><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; TEXT-TRANSFORM: uppercase; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">For
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-outline-level: 1"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">January 2<SPAN
class=715053915-25012008>5</SPAN>, 2008<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<H1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 19pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Winter Heats Up With
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></H1>
<H1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 19pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Great Lakes Theater Festival’s
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></H1>
<H1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 19pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">FREE Touring Production of <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Seeing Red</I><o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></H1>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT
size=3>The Festival’s 2008 touring production
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></I></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT
size=3>will visit twenty-seven venues throughout northern <?xml:namespace prefix
= st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:State
w:st="on">Ohio</st1:State></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></I></B></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; mso-outline-level: 1"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; mso-outline-level: 1"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Great
Lakes Theater Festival (GLTF) will <B>launch the world premiere of <I>Seeing
Red, </I>a free outreach touring production </B>scheduled to visit twenty-seven
neighborhood venues throughout northern <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State
w:st="on">Ohio</st1:State></st1:place>, to kick off the company’s Spring 2008
series of <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Surround</I>
programming<B>.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></B></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The production is
written by GLTF Director of Education, Daniel Hahn, and features <B>a touring
company of four actors</B>.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">GLTF’s Associate Artistic Director, Andrew
May, directs the production</B>.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Seeing Red</I> tour <SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">begins<B> February 19<SUP>th</SUP>, continues
through March 19<SUP>th</SUP> </B>and is designed<B> </B>to support the
Festival’s upcoming main stage production of Arthur Miller’s <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Crucible</I><B>.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></B></SPAN><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">All non-school performances of <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Seeing Red</I> are free </B>and open to the
public. </SPAN><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A
href="http://www.greatlakestheater.org/education/surround/default.shtm#dark"><STRONG>(<SPAN
class=852094315-25012008>Click here </SPAN>for a complete list of performance
venues, dates and times.)</STRONG></A></SPAN></I></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; mso-outline-level: 1"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></I><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; mso-outline-level: 1"><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">“A program like
the outreach touring production affords communities the unique opportunity to
experience art where they live…right in their own backyards…in their
neighborhoods,”</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> remarked Daniel
Hahn, Great Lakes Theater Festival’s Director of Education, when asked about the
Festival’s annual tour.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“There are
a lot of people that don’t go or are unable to go downtown for a variety of
reasons… preventing them from experiencing the plays on our main stage.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The outreach tour offers us [GLTF] a
unique opportunity to connect with these people and their
communities.”</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; mso-outline-level: 1"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Seeing
Red</SPAN></I><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> explores the
question of <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">what happens when government
oversteps the bounds of its power and infringes upon the rights of
citizens?</B></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">For over thirty
years, the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">United
States</st1:country-region></st1:place> government called upon American citizens
to testify before the House Un-American </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Activities
Committee, where naming names of purported communists was as commonplace as it
was ruinous.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Seeing Red</I> dramatizes the actual
testimony of four key witnesses, concluding with Arthur Miller himself, whose
play, <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Crucible</I>, serves as an
allegory for these congressional hearings.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Although <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Crucible</I> is set
in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Salem</st1:City>, <st1:State
w:st="on">Massachusetts</st1:State></st1:place> of 1692, it was the
congressional witch hunts of the 1940s and 1950s that inspired Miller to write
his epic play.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Seeing Red</I> provides a unique historical
context for the Festival’s spring production of <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Crucible</I>, and raises important
questions which still have resonance today.</SPAN></P></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The four-actor
touring ensemble features <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Cleveland</st1:City></st1:place> actors David Hansen, Joseph Primes,
Justin Tatum </SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">and<B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"> Elizabeth Wood.</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The design trio of<B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"> Joshua Frachiseur (scenic design), Melanie
Boeman (costume design) and Richard Ingraham (sound design) </B>complete the
play’s production team.<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"> <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></B>“I couldn’t be more proud of the
talented production team that we have been able to assemble for this project,”
said Hahn of his artistic collaborators.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>“I can’t wait to share their work with the twenty-seven partner venues
that we’ll have the privilege of visiting during our tour of northern <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Ohio</st1:State></st1:place>.”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><o:p></o:p></B></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; mso-outline-level: 1"><B><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Seeing
Red</SPAN></I></B><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> is a
seventy-minute program that includes an introduction and post-performance
discussion.</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> Times and dates
are subject to change.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Call
individual venues for more information about the performances.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">(Consult the
enclosed tour calendar for a complete list of performance venues, dates, times
and contact information.)</SPAN></I><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; mso-outline-level: 1"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><EM></EM><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; mso-outline-level: 1"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Seeing
Red</SPAN></I></B><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> is part<SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> of a series of community programs
surrounding Great Lakes Theater Festival’s upcoming Spring Repertory production
of <I>The Crucible </I><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic">by Arthur
Miller </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">(March 28 – April
27, 2008, at the Ohio Theatre, Playhouse Square).<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Held throughout northern <st1:State
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Ohio</st1:place></st1:State> from February
through May, the 2008 S<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">urround</I> is
designed for audiences of all backgrounds and ages.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">All <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Surround</I> events are free and open to the
public at non-school venues.</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>For more information, visit the Great Lakes Theater Festival website at
<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><A
href="http://www.greatlakestheater.org/education/surround">www.greatlakestheater.org/education/surround</A>/
</B>or call the Festival’s education department at <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">(216) 241-5490
x307.<o:p></o:p></B></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">#<SPAN
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; TEXT-TRANSFORM: uppercase; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Media
Contact:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-outline-level: 1"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Todd
Krispinsky<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-outline-level: 1"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Marketing and Public Relations
Director<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-outline-level: 1"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">(216) 241-5490 x
317<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-outline-level: 1"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A
href="mailto:tkrispinsky@greatlakestheater.org">tkrispinsky@greatlakestheater.org</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV>
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