<div><font size="4">This Friday, 10/9, Oddy Festival, under our gracious host Dobama Theater, presents a pastiche sampling of our work to Dobama audiences after the Friday night showing of "Ten More Minutes from Cleveland" by Eric Coble.</font></div>
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<div><font size="4">Stick around after the show for a free triptych of Oddy work: the last powerful scene from this month's historical drama, "Trotsky," a wacky piece about the Toledo War of 1837 and the emerging Ohio/Michigan rivalry (as it is OSU Night at Dobama), and a reading of "Ode to Cleveland" by Matt Greenfield, a poem in dedication to the spirit of this fair city and its resilience.</font></div>
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<div><font size="4"><strong>10/9 at 8 p.m. at 2340 Lee Road: Come out for Dobama, stick around for Oddy!</strong></font></div>
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<div><font size="4">If you like what you see this Friday, then next Friday, 10/16, is the second and final showing of Oddy's <strong>"October Revolutions</strong>", featuring Greenfield's "Trotsky" and Oatman's "Gandhi & Hitler." Come over across the bridge from Dobama (2345 Lee Road) to check out some free Friday theatre in the Library! Details below:</font></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><strong>Oddy’s October set of plays takes a look at three idealistic early twentieth-century men who wanted to change the world, and did change it (and themselves) in ways that they could never have anticipated...</strong></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">In honor of “Trotsky,” OddyFest music director Joe Barone plays a few original tunes sung in Russian and written by Cat Kenney.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><strong>“Trotsky” by Matt Greenfield</strong></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">The greatest trick this Russian revolutionary pulled was not winning the civil war, but creating a self called “Leon Trotsky” from his humble origins as Lev Bronstein, sacrificing family and identity for the sake of monomaniacal idealism.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">A meditation on good, evil, and rock-n-roll: Adolf and Mahatma chat it up in Purgatory, discussing their respective legacies in history while observing a Slipknot concert.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><strong>NOW ON THE ODD </strong></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><u><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 20pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">FRIDAYS</span></u></i><span style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><strong>!</strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 20pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><strong>October 2 / October 16</strong></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><strong><u><span style="FONT-SIZE: 20pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Show starts at </span></u><u><span style="FONT-SIZE: 20pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">7:15</span></u><u><span style="FONT-SIZE: 20pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> </span></u><span style="FONT-SIZE: 20pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><strong><span style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">of the </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Cleveland Heights</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> Library, </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Lee Road</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> Branch</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><strong><span style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">(</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">2345 Lee Road</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">, just next to the stairs)</span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><strong>(Though, if you really want to give money to OddyFest,</strong></span></p>
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<div></div><br>-- <br>Matt Greenfield<br>The Oddy Festival<br><a href="mailto:oddyfest@gmail.com">oddyfest@gmail.com</a><br>216-WAM-TOG1 (216-926-8641)<br><a href="http://www.twitter.com/OddyFest">www.twitter.com/OddyFest</a><br>