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<p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Karamu Performing Arts
Theatre opened its 2008/2009 Theatre season of “Hope &
Accountability” September 18th with the Midwest Premiere of Pulitzer
prize winner Lynn Nottage’s “<span class=listauthor>Fabulation, or
the Re-Education of Undine” directed by Caroline Jackson Smith.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Obie award winning 2004
off Broadway hit “<span class=listauthor><i>Fabulation, Or The
Re-Education Of Undine</i></span>” opens the season of <b>Hope
& Accountability</b> at Karamu House, Cleveland’s landmark
multicultural theatre. The show opened September 18 and runs through
October 11 in Karamu’s Jelliffe Theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>“Fabulation”
tells the story of an</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> ambitious and
haughty African-American woman, Undine Barnes Calles, whose husband suddenly
disappears after embezzling all of her money. Pregnant and on the brink of social
and financial ruin, Undine is forced to go back to her family and child-hood
home in the inner city of Brooklyn’s Walt Whitman projects, only to
discover that she must cope with a crude new reality. Undine faces the
challenge of transforming her setbacks into small victories in a battle to
reaffirm her right to be. FABULATION is a comeuppance tale with a comic twist. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Performances are 8:00 p.m.
Thursdays-Saturdays and 3:00 p.m. on Sundays. Tickets are $20.00 for
Thursday and Sunday and $25.00 for Friday and Saturday. Group, senior and
student discounts are available. The play contains adult language and
content. Special offer for Neohiopal members buy one get one free
September 24<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Thru September 27, 2009.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Karamu House is located at 2355 East 89<sup>th</sup> Street, Cleveland,
Ohio. <span style='color:black'>Tickets may be purchased via the
Karamu website at <a href="http://www.karamu.com"><span style='color:black'>www.karamu.com</span></a>
or through the box office at (216) 795 7077.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Karamu House Inc. is
supported in part by The John P. Murphy Foundation, The Ohio Lottery, The
Cleveland Foundation, The George Gund Foundation, the Ohio Arts Council and is
generously funded by the Cuyahoga County Residents through Cuyahoga Arts and
Culture.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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