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mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">Theater Ninjas
announces third season of original work and regional premieres<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">New season boasts work
by Sarah Kane, Elizabeth Meriweather and Theater Ninjas</span></span></div></p>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Theater Ninjas is proud
to formally announce its third theatrical season consisting entirely of
original work and regional premieres.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The season began on November 14 with <b>“Blueprints: Works-in-Progress”</b></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica"> a free showcase of developing work by Mikaela
Clark, Mackenzie Clevenger, Becky Cummings, Christopher Johnston, MegLouise
Dance, Greg Vovos and Theater Ninjas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>This weekend-long event resulted in rave audience reviews and packed
houses, making good on the company’s mission to bring affordable, quality work
to Cleveland audiences.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Coming up in January,
Theater Ninjas will unveil an original play mixing puppetry and physical
theater called “<b>The Beetlebug and the Bad Worm</b></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica">”. A parable about friends, cruelty and bugs, the
show follows the title characters through a series of comic misadventures
reminiscent of Tom & Jerry, Laurel & Hardy and Samuel Beckett.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Having already unveiled several
‘chapters’ in the pair’s story, a full version of “The Beetlebug and the Bad
Worm” will run January 9-11 in Cleveland Public Theatre’s Big [Box] series.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Following in February,
Theater Ninjas is extremely excited to produce the tenth USA production and
Ohio premiere of Sarah Kane’s <b>“Crave”.</b></span><span style="font-family:
Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>A dark, lyrical
masterpiece “Crave” is a moving exploration of need, want, love, hate, loss
and, ultimately, hope. Kane is one of the great modern playwrights, and this will be the first performance of “Crave” in Cleveland,
and only the second Sarah Kane play professionally produced in the state ever. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Wrapping up the season
in April is “<b>Heddatron</b></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica">”, the
regional premiere of Elizabeth Merriweather’s hilarious and bizarre play about
a pregnant housewife who is abducted by robots, taken to the Amazon and forced to perform Henrik
Ibsen’s “Hedda Gabbler” over and over again. Intelligent, funny and surprisingly poignant, “Heddatron”
includes the only human-robot musical number on Cleveland stages this year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">For more information
about the season, visit theaterninjas.com.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Helvetica; "><u>Theater Ninjas – Season 3<o:p></o:p></u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><b>Blueprints: works-in-progress<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Local developing works of theater and dance<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">November 14 - 16, 2008<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><b>The Beetlebug and the Bad Worm<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Created and performed by Theater Ninjas<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Part of Cleveland Public Theatre’s Big [Box] series<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">January 9 - 11, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><b>Crave<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">By Sarah Kane<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Directed by Jeremy Paul<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">February 20 - March 8, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><b>Heddatron<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">By Elizabeth Meriweather<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Directed by Jeremy Paul<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">April 17 - May 3, 2009</span></div></div>
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