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Fourth Wall Productions needs to cast a couple male roles for our upcoming production of "The Bank Guards." "The Bank Guards" is a world premiere production from our resident playwright Matthew A. Sprosty. <BR>
Rehearsals start immediately. Monday - Friday evening rehearsals. Performances are May 22-June 1. <BR>
Contact director Rebecca Cole by email at <A href="mailto:rebecca@fourthwallproductions.com">rebecca@fourthwallproductions.com</A> or phone at (330) 283-2442.<BR>
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<STRONG>Bank Guards </STRONG><BR>
<P class=style5>by Matthew A. Sprosty </P>
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<P class=style3 align=left>ABOUT <STRONG>THE BANK GUARDS </STRONG></P>
<P class=style3 align=left>(Spring, 2008) Since Sprosty came to Cleveland, two of his shows (<EM>Plans Change, Schism</EM>) were through-and-through comedies. Knowing he would eventually try a drama on the Cleveland audience, Sprosty wrote <EM>Malicious Bunny</EM> (a dark comedy) so that the switch from comedy to drama wasn’t as out-of-the-blue. Also, all three plays were reviewed as having very natural dialogue. As Vanessa Lange in WestLife said: “[the audience has] the feeling of being apart of an intimate conversation between close friends” (on <EM>Plans Change</EM>.) So, Sprosty set out to write a play where the audience felt like they were listening in on the planning of a bank robbery. Using his own experiences of robbing a bank in college (to help the Athens Police train the bank employees,) Sprosty wrote his first post-college drama. Fourth Wall is excited to announce Matthew A. Sprosty’s<STRONG> The Bank Guards</STRONG>, set for the Spring of 2008. </P>
<P class=style3 align=left>The Story: <STRONG>The Bank Guards</STRONG> is a play about five security guards posted at the fictional bank “Cleveland Federal.” Corrupted, and convinced, that they deserve more compensation than their twenty-seven thousand dollar paychecks to protect the wealthiest of Cleveland’s money- they decide to rob the bank. <STRONG>The Bank Guards</STRONG> is set the night before the robbery where they come together to finalize their plans. Unfortunately, they’re about to realize that sometimes the best laid plans fall flat. And when two of the guards kidnap a bank robber to help them, most the guys wonder if they will even make it into the morning alive. </P>
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<P class=style3 align=left>ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT </P>
<P class=style3 align=left>MATTHEW A. SPROSTY was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. Matthew helped initiate the Ohio University’s Undergraduate Playwrights Ten-Minute Play Festival to showcase the writing skills of the School of Theatre’s undergraduate talent. Also, Matthew’s first full length, Ganareys’ 101 (which had a reading in Atlanta, GA before Sprosty graduated,) was one of the first school-sanctioned productions of an undergraduate playwright’s full-length play at Ohio University. After that, Sprosty paired up with director Rebecca Cole again for the full length All’s Fair, where on closing night- they had to turn away half the theatre-goers due to an already full house. Graduating from Ohio University’s Playwriting Program with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in the Spring of 2004, Sprosty returned to Cleveland with Tatum and Smith to start the groundwork of Fourth Wall Productions. </P>
<P class=style3 align=left>Fourth Wall Productions has produced three shows of Sprosty’s (<EM>Schism, Plans Change</EM>, and <EM>Malicious Bunny</EM>) where he received write-ups such as: “Sprosty has a gift for dialogue that keeps the audience entertained and engaged… [gives] the feeling of being apart of an intimate conversation between close friends, rather than listening to actors on a stage.” –Vanessa Lange, WestLife, on <EM>Plans Change</EM>. “It’s been awhile since I’ve had such a good time at a theatre production. The twists, turns, and ‘oh-my-goodness’ moments in ‘<EM>Malicious Bunny</EM>’ keep the audience laughing and thinking of what’s going to happen next. Bravo!” –Roy Berko. “Sprosty is a writer to watch – his ear for the rhythms of dudedom is impeccable.” – Linda Eisenstein, CoolCleveland.com “It truly was one of the… best written shows I’ve seen [in Cleveland]” Lincoln King-Cliby, NeoPal, on <EM>Schism</EM>. </P>
<P class=style3 align=left>He has also had two ten-minutes produced at Ohio University- <EM>The Nightcap</EM>, and <EM>No Apologies</EM>.</P><br /><hr />Use video conversation to talk face-to-face with Windows Live Messenger. <a href='http://www.windowslive.com/messenger/connect_your_way.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_messenger_video_042008' target='_new'>Get started!</a></body>
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