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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">February 13, 2009</B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Cleveland Public Library will host a staged reading of Sean Christopher Lewis’s new play, “The Aperture,” Saturday, March 7 at 2:00 p.m., in the Literature Department on the 2<SUP>nd</SUP> floor of the Main Library, located at 325 Superior Avenue.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>“The Aperture” will be given its world premiere on March 13 at Cleveland Public Theatre. The production will run through the 28<SUP>th</SUP> and will feature two actors playing six different parts.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Mr. Lewis will be on hand at the library to discuss his play, as will Craig J. George, director of the production, and Raymond Bobgan, artistic director of Cleveland Public Theatre.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>“The Aperture,” deals with the themes of global turbulence, violence and race. It is the inaugural winner of the Rosa Parks Playwright Award. The story examines the unlikely relationship of a beautiful American photographer with her “subject,” a former boy soldier from Africa.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>The library program is free and open to the public.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Call the Cleveland Public Library Literature Department at (216) 623-2881 for information.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> </P><BR><BR>-- <BR>**************<BR>Ron Antonucci<BR>Head of Literature<BR>Cleveland Public Library<BR>325 Superior Ave.<BR>Cleveland, Ohio 44114<BR>(216) 623-2881<BR>rantonucci@cpl.org<BR>www.cpl.org<BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></body></html>