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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">FRANKENSTEIN</i> at E.J. Thomas’s Stage Door<br>
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<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">AKRON</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">OH</st1:State></st1:place> –New World Performance Laboratory’s production of
</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><strong>Frankenstein</strong></span></i><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">
will be presented as part of E.J. Thomas Performing Arts Hall’s exciting Stage Door series on November 8, 2008, at 8 PM.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> E.J.</span> Thomas Performing Arts Hall is located on The University of Akron campus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Tickets are $10, $5 for students.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>
Tickets are available at the Thomas Hall Ticket Office, Ticketmaster.com, all Ticketmaster locations or charge-by-phone at (330) 945-9400 (<st1:City w:st="on">Akron</st1:City>) or (216) 241-5555 (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Cleveland</st1:City></st1:place>).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>For further information call the Thomas Hall ticket office at (330) 972-7570 or visit the website at
<a href="http://www.ejthomashall.com/"><b>www.ejthomashall.com</b></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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<p class="MsoSubtitle" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">New World Performance Laboratory's investigation of the
classic story of </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><strong>Frankenstein</strong></span></i><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">
by Mary Shelley incorporates images from the novel and scenes from Shelley’s own life. This company creation depicts the epic battle between body, mind, and soul fought on a landscape of solitude and horror. The characters of
</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><strong>Frankenstein</strong></span></i><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">
mingle with Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, her husband Percy Shelley, and their friends in a gothic nightmare that displays the deeply detailed physical style of NWPL’s actors and a haunting vocal score exploring 19th century romantic motifs with new music composed
by Megan Elk. NWPL’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Frankenstein</i>, which premiered as part of The Cleveland Playhouse’s Fusion Fest, has been called “mesmerizing,” “amazing,” and “provocative.”<br>
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NWPL presents this Northeast Ohio encore performance of </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><strong>Frankenstein</strong></span></i><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">
following a successful summer tour to <st1:country-region w:st="on">Poland</st1:country-region> where the production was performed in June and July as part of several international festivals including the Malta Festival in
<st1:City w:st="on">Poznan</st1:City> and the Openings Festival in <st1:City w:st="on">
<st1:place w:st="on">Wroclaw</st1:place></st1:City>. Co- Artistic Directors Jairo Cuesta and James Slowiak (who recently published a book, Jerzy Grotowski,, Routledge 2007) also conducted a series of workshops while in
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Poland</st1:country-region> and then traveled to <st1:country-region w:st="on">
Italy</st1:country-region> where they conducted workshops throughout the month of July in
<st1:City w:st="on">Rome</st1:City>, <st1:City w:st="on">Chieti</st1:City>, and at several locations in
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Umbria</st1:State></st1:place>. In August, the group traveled to the Catskills to participate in North American Cultural Laboratory’s Catskill Festival of New Theatre.
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Directed by NWPL co-artistic director and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Akron</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> theatre professor James Slowiak,</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><strong> Frankenstein</strong></span></i><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">
features NWPL co-artistic director Jairo Cuesta and company members Debora Totti, Christopher Buck, Megan Elk, Justin Hale, and Jamie G. Hale. Costume and set design is by Inda Blatch-Geib, lighting design by Chris Hariasz, dramaturgy by Mike Geither, company
and technical management by Danny J Durst, and photographs by Andrew McAllister.
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NWPL works in residence at The University of Akron and under the auspices of the Center for Applied Theatre and Active Culture (CATAC). For information on the company’s performances, educational programs, and workshops call 330-867-3299 or visit the website
at www.nwplab.org</span></p>
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