<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite"><p align="center" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: center"><font face="Helvetica" size="6" style="font: 21.0px Helvetica"><b>LILIES</b></font></p><p align="center" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: center"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><i>or the revival of a romantic drama</i></font></p><p align="center" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: center"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">A Staged Reading to benefit Mercury Summer Stock</font></p><p align="center" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br></p><p align="center" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: center"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">by Michel Marc Bouchard</font></p><p align="center" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: center"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">directed by Pierre-Jacques Brault</font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica"> </font><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Sunday, May 31, 2009 at 7:30 PM <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><b>Tickets</b>: $10.00</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; 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margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Featuring</b> Mark Cipra, Zach DeNardi, Rob Gibb, Robert Hawkes, Corey Mach, Brian Marshall, Joseph Monaghan, Devon Settles Jr. and Nicholas Varricchio.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>For Tickets: 216-771-5862 or </b><a href="mailto:mercuryss@mac.com"><font color="#0000f0" style="color: #0000f0"><u><b>mercuryss@mac.com</b></u></font></a><b>. Seating is Limited.</b></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica"> </font></p><p align="center" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: center"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><u>The love story no one ever told you.</u></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Helvetica"><b> </b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">In Michel Marc Bouchard's masterpiece <i>Lilies</i>, Father Saint-Michel states "...theatre should reach everyone. One can do anything in theatre, you know. One can reinvent life. One can be in love, jealous, insane, tyrannical or possessed. One can even lie and cheat. One can kill without feeling the slightest bit of remorse. One can die of love, of hate, of passion...one can conquer the unconquerable."</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Helvetica"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Lyrical, erotic, and redemptive, Michel Marc Bouchard’s <i>Lilies</i> unfolds as a play-within-a-play that centers on an impassioned love between two young men at a Catholic boys’ school in rural Canada in 1912. As the story opens, Bishop Jean Bilodeau is summoned to a Québécois prison to hear the confession of Simon Doucet, a boyhood friend jailed for a murder he did not commit 40 years earlier. But instead of the confession he expects to hear, Bilodeau is forced to watch a play re-enacted by Doucet’s prisonmates detailing the horrendous and shocking events that transpired in their teenage years. A tense drama of tangled emotions and unfulfilled longing, <i>Lilies</i> was adapted into a film by John Greyson that became an audience favorite at the 1996 San Francisco Gay & Lesbian Film Festival and won the Canadian Genie (equivalent to the American Academy Award) for best picture of 1996.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Helvetica"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">This production marks the play’s Ohio premiere.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Helvetica"> </font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">All proceeds benefit Mercury Summer Stock's ongoing mission to bring new and rarely performed works of theatre to the Greater Cleveland Community. All donations tax-deductible.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>AT A GLANCE:</b></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>What:</b> Mercury Summer Stock presents Lilies <i>or The Revival Of A Romantic Drama</i></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>When:</b> Sunday May 31, 2009 at 7:30 PM</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Where:</b> Brooks Theatre, Cleveland Play House, 8500 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH, 44016 </font></div> </blockquote></div><br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>