<div><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size=3>The University of Akron Theatre Guild Presents:</FONT></div>
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<div><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size=3>"A Shayna Maidel" written by Barbara Lebow</FONT></div>
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<div><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size=3>Directed by Heather Beyer</FONT></div>
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<div><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size=3>Characters:</FONT></div>
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<div><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size=3>Duvid Pechenik: Lusia'a husband, 30 or younger ( will cast ages 18-35)</FONT></div>
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<div><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size=3>Mordechai Weiss: father of Rose Weiss, almost 70 ( any age range) </FONT></div>
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<div><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>THE PLAY WILL OPEN THE 1ST WEEKEND IN DECEMBER. REHEARSALS WILL BE MONDAYS, TUESDAYS AND THURSDAYS FROM 7-10PM. REHEARSAL TIMES ARE TENTATIVE AND CAN ARRANGED ACCORDING TO THE ACTORS SCHEDULES. </FONT></div>
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<div><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size=3>Summary of the play:</FONT></div>
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<div class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN lang=EN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size=3>A SHAYNA MAIDEL dramatizes the saga of the Weiss family, Polish Jews whose lives are irrecoverably altered by the Holocaust. It is a memory play in that moves back and forth in time, depicting the birth of Mordechai Weiss in Poland in 1876, the reunion of his two daughters in New York City in 1946, and one daughter's flashbacks of her life in Poland immediately before and after the Holocaust.</FONT></SPAN></div>
<div class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN lang=EN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size=3>The New York Times described A SHAYNA MAIDEL as "...a powerful, deeply affecting portrait of a family, which conveys the aftermath of the Holocaust through a poignant, imaginatively conceived examination of one divided family's experience. A tribute to the sustaining power of family and to man's indominatability."</FONT></SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN lang=EN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>AUDITIONS FOR THE MALE ROLES WILL BE THIS MONDAY 6PM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON, GUZZETTA HALL RM 298. </FONT></STRONG></SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN lang=EN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>CONTACT HEATHER BEYER AT <A href="mailto:HMBEYER@AOL.COM">HMBEYER@AOL.COM</A> FOR FURTHER DETAILS</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></div>
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