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<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='text-align:center'><b>Ohio
Shakespeare Festival<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='text-align:center'>performing at<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='text-align:center'><b>Coach House
Theatre<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='text-align:center'>732 W. Exchange
St.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='text-align:center'>Akron, OH 44302<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='text-align:center'>330-673-8761<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='text-align:center'><a
href="mailto:NancyCates@ohioshakespeare.com">NancyCates@ohioshakespeare.com</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:16.0pt'>“<b><i>The Upstart Crow</i></b>” to Land
at Coach House Theatre<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNoSpacing>The Ohio Shakespeare Festival, performing in cooperation
with Coach House Theatre in Akron, will be presenting the Ohio premiere of <b><i>The
Upstart Crow</i></b>, written by famed Shakespearean actor and director Vincent
Dowling, on <b>January 9-18, 2009</b>. This special event will run Fridays and
Saturdays at 8pm, and Sundays at 2:30pm. <b>Tickets are only $10</b> for
theatre only, or $25 for dinner (or brunch) and theatre. Dinner and brunch are
next door at the historic Akron Woman’s City Club.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNoSpacing>This season, Coach House Theatre and the Ohio Shakespeare
Festival have teamed up to perform a series of Shakespeare-related programming,
beginning last fall with the one-man tour de force <b><i>Barrymore’s
Ghost</i></b>, about the legendary John Barrymore, acclaimed to be the finest
Hamlet of his generation. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNoSpacing>The famous insult “upstart crow” was given by
a scholar and critic in 1592 to the young actor and playwright William
Shakespeare. In <i>The Upstart Crow,</i> Shakespeare’s daughter seeks
out famed actor Richard Burbage at the Globe Theatre in London to discover why
her father’s meteoric career took him so completely out of her life. She
finds in Burbage a fiercely devoted friend, a proud actor, a teacher and a
guide, who leads her through the words and characters of her father’s
plays in an effort to find the man. By blending dialog with some of
Shakespeare’s famous speeches, Dowling appeals to both Shakespeare
novices and devotees alike. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNoSpacing>The show features Ohio Shakespeare Festival’s
Artistic Director, <b>Terry Burgler</b>, and Cleveland actress <b>Tracee
Patterson</b>, who starred the Beck Center’s <i>Song and Dance</i>.
Burgler has been an actor, director, producer and educator for over 30 years,
and is one of the founders of OSF, which performs summers at Stan Hywet Hall
and Gardens. He has, coincidentally, both studied and performed at
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNoSpacing>For tickets call the Ohio Shakespeare Festival box office
at 330-673-8761. Further information is available at <a
href="http://www.ohioshakespeare.com">www.ohioshakespeare.com</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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