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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>From Weathervane Playhouse - Akron OH</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The following information is included
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1. Auditions for <EM>The Great White
Hope</EM></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>2. Auditions for <EM>Rabbit Hole</EM></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>3. Don't miss the final weekend of <EM>The Last
Night of Ballyhoo</EM></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>4. <EM>The Goat or, Who is Sylvia?</EM> opens in
the Dietz</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT face=Arial color=#800000
size=5><STRONG>1.</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
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by APPOINTMENT</SPAN></U></B><B><SPAN
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: maroon; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica"><FONT
face=Helvetica>for Howard Sackler's Classic<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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face=Helvetica>THE GREAT WHITE HOPE<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: maroon; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica"><FONT
face=Helvetica>SUNDAY, NOV. 8, 3 – 5 p.m.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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face=Helvetica>TUESDAY, NOV. 10, 7 – 9 p.m.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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face=Helvetica>Weathervane Playhouse<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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align=center><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #666699; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica"><FONT
face=Helvetica>AKRON<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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align=center><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: maroon; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica"><FONT
face=Helvetica>Call 330-826-2626 for an
appointment<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica"><FONT
face=Helvetica>Run Dates: April 1 – April 18, 2010 (12 performances)<B><SPAN
style="COLOR: maroon"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica"><FONT
face=Helvetica>Director. Terrence Spivey<BR><BR></FONT><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: maroon"><FONT
face=Helvetica>Prepare:<BR>Be familiar with the
script.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></SPAN></P>
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align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: maroon; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica"><FONT
face=Helvetica>(You may present a monologue.)</FONT></SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica"><BR></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><BR
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style="mso-special-character: line-break"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Cast
Requirements:<BR>(See character breakdown below)<BR>15 Women ages 20s –
50s<BR>20 Men ages 20s – 50s<BR>10 Boys ages 12 – 16<BR>5 Girls ages 12 -
16<BR><BR>Set in the early 1900s, <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The
Great White Hope</I> is loosely based on the life of African American boxer Jack
Johnson, renamed Jack Jefferson in the story. After becoming the first Negro
heavyweight champion of the world in 1908, the play follows his tumultuous
career and explores the nature of racism and racial conflict in American
society. In collaboration with Weathervane Playhouse, Karamu House Theater and
Ensemble Theatre comes one of the most dynamic plays ever written for the
American stage. <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Great White Hope</I>
won the Pulitzer Prize, Tony and Drama Desk Award for Best Drama. Once it closes
at Karamu, the production and some of the cast moves to Weathervane
Playhouse.<BR><BR>CHARACTER BREAKDOWN<BR>Time: Before and During World War
l<BR>Place: Parchman, Ohio, San Francisco, Nevada, Chicago, London, Paris,
Berlin, Budapest and Havana<BR><BR>JACK JEFFERSON: African American Male, Early
to late 30’s. Based on boxer Jack Johnson, who became the first black
heavyweight champion in 1908 from Galveston, Texas and was nicknamed “Galveston
Giant.” He is larger than life, keen, confident and “bragadocious. Lives life to
the fullest. He feels he is his own man and not ab out proving anything to any
race-including his own. Note:<BR>All actors auditioning for this role should
wear a tank top underneath your dress shirt. Be prepared to move around and
shadowbox.<BR><BR>ELEANOR BACHMAN: Caucasian Female, late 20s-Early 30s. A
loving, defiant Desdemona to Jack Jefferson’s twentieth century
Othello.<BR><BR>TICK: African American Male, Late 50s. He is Jack’s no nonsense
trainer.<BR><BR>BRADY: Caucasian Male, Late 30s- Early 40’s. A heavyweight
champion living in Parchman, Ohio. <BR><BR>GOLDIE: Caucasian Male, Early to late
40s, Jack’s Jewish manager.<BR><BR>SMITTY: Caucasian Male, 40s-50s, famous
sports writer.<BR><BR>CAP’N DAN: Caucasian Male, late 50s, Brady’s manager, a
champion of earlier days.<BR><BR>CLARA: African American Female, 30s. One of
Jack’s longtime lovers from Detroit who thinks she is his common law wife. She
is sexy and very sassy.<BR><BR>CAMERON: Caucasian Male, 40 s-50s. Chicago
District Attorney.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">MR. DIXON: Caucasian
Male, 30’s-50’s. A Federal Marshall<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">MRS. BACHMAN: Caucasian
Female, 40’s -50’s. Ellie’s Mother<BR><BR>MRS. JEFFERSON: African American
female 50s-60s. Jack’s mother. Faithful to the <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">church and supports her
son. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">EL JEFE: 40’s-50’s.
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">MEXICAN BOY: Young boy
to teen <BR><BR>SCIPIO: African American Male, 30s. Very colorful character who
is imbedded within the culture of his people. He is a thorn in Jack’s side about
setting an example for his race. <BR><BR>ENSEMBLE: Additional supporting roles
are available for more than thirty African American and Caucasian male and
female actors of all ages, 20 who will perform multiple roles in the play; Pop
Weaver, Promoters, Reporters, Deacons, Boxing Handlers, Trainers, Photographers,
Weigh-In, Bettor, Roller, Civic Marchers, Church Sisters, Policemen
(American/German), Deputies, Detectives, Pastors, Government Agent, Fight Fans,
Jugglers etc.<BR><BR>About the Director<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Terrence
Spivey</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
has won numerous accolades and received local and national acclaim since
arriving as Artistic Director at the historical Karamu House in October 2003
after residing for eighteen years in New York City. His directing credits
includes the critically acclaimed “bee-luther-hatchee,” “for colored girls who
have considered suicide when the rainbow Is enuf,” “Dream on Monkey Mountain,”
“Permanent Collection,” “Bourbon at the Border,” “The Fire Inside: The Story and
Poetry of Nikki Giovanni.” “The Blacks: A Clown Show” and “A House With No
Walls” just to name a few.<BR><BR>He has been featured in local media, Ebony
magazine, profiled in Back Stage, Artist and Influence,</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">TCG’S American Theatre
February 2009 issue and was elected as a 2009 member of the prestigious National
Theatre Conference, joining members such as Robert Falls (Goodman Theatre), Lou
Bellamy (Penumbra Theatre) Ed Stern (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park), Woodie
King (New Federal Theatre) , James Bundy ( Yale School of Drama) and many more.
Spivey serves on the board of trustees at Community Partnership for Arts and
Culture (CPAC) and Ohio Alliance for Arts and Education (OAAE) based in
Columbus. He looks forward to this exciting collaboration.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">He is a theatre graduate
of Prairie View A&M University in Texas.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">1301
Weathervane Lane<BR>(In the Valley off Merriman Rd)<BR>Akron, OH
44313</SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">330-836-2626<BR></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><A
href="http://www.weathervaneplayhouse.com/"
target=_blank>www.weathervaneplayhouse.com</A><BR
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style="mso-special-character: line-break"><o:p><FONT face=Arial
size=2><STRONG><FONT color=#800000 size=5>2.</FONT>
</STRONG></FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>
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align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: maroon"><FONT face=Helvetica>Weathervane
Playhouse Annouces<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: maroon"><FONT face=Helvetica>OPEN CALL
AUDITIONS<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: maroon"><FONT face=Helvetica>For <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><U>Rabbit Hole</U></I> by David
Lindsay-Abaire<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: maroon"><o:p><FONT
face=Helvetica> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: maroon"><FONT face=Helvetica>Sunday, November 15,
2009 at 3:00 p.m.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: maroon"><FONT face=Helvetica>Monday, November 16,
2009 at 7 p.m.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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align=center><o:p><FONT face=Helvetica> </FONT></o:p></P>
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align=center><U><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face=Helvetica>Please be
familiar with the script.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></U></P>
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align=center><U><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face=Helvetica>Scripts and
audition scenes are available at the playhouse.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></U></P>
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align=center><o:p><FONT face=Helvetica> </FONT></o:p></P>
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align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face=Helvetica>Character
Descriptions<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face=Helvetica>Becca: Late thirties / early
forties. Easily defensive since the death of her son. Has a good sense of humor
that shows occasionally.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p><FONT face=Helvetica> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face=Helvetica>Izzy: Becca’s sister. Early
thirties (Could be late twenties). More easy-going than her sister, but is
trying to make the transition to becoming a more responsible adult.
Quick-witted.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p><FONT face=Helvetica> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face=Helvetica>Howie: Becca’s husband. Late
thirties / early forties. Has a good sense of humor that he feels he can’t use
given the current circumstances.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p><FONT face=Helvetica> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face=Helvetica>Nat: Becca and Izzy’s mother.
Sixties. Overbearing, but has a good heart. Must be able to play
‘tipsy.’<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p><FONT face=Helvetica> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face=Helvetica>Jason: Seventeen. Normal teenage
boy.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p><FONT face=Helvetica> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face=Helvetica>Synopsis: A sudden and
incomprehensible accident forces a husband and wife to cope in ways each had
never imagined possible in this powerful drama. <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Rabbit Hole</I> charts an emotional journey
from loss to forgiveness, revealing the human capacity for enduring through
suffering. Winner of the 2007 Pulizer Prize for
Drama.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p><FONT face=Helvetica> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face=Helvetica>Director, Stephen Skiles: The
University of Akron<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p><FONT face=Helvetica> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face=Helvetica>Run Dates: February 4 – 21, 2010
(12 performances) Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and
Sundays.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p><FONT face=Helvetica> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
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align=center><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">1301
Weathervane Lane<BR>(In the Valley off Merriman Rd)<BR>Akron, OH
44313<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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align=center><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">330-836-2626<BR></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><A
href="http://www.weathervaneplayhouse.com/"
target=_blank>www.weathervaneplayhouse.com</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV align=center><FONT face=Arial color=#800000
size=5><STRONG>3.</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=center>
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align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; COLOR: #666699"><FONT face=Helvetica>Don’t
Miss<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; COLOR: #666699"><FONT face=Helvetica>Final
weekend<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; COLOR: #666699"><FONT
face=Helvetica>Alfred Uhry’s<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; COLOR: #666699"><FONT face=Helvetica>The Last Night of
Ballyhoo<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></I></B></P>
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align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; COLOR: #666699"><o:p><FONT
face=Helvetica> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; COLOR: purple"><FONT face=Helvetica>Weathervane
Playhouse<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; COLOR: purple"><FONT face=Helvetica>Akron,
OH<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; COLOR: #666699"><o:p><FONT
face=Helvetica> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; COLOR: #666699"><FONT face=Helvetica>Must Close Oct.
25<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #666699; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Thursdays
at 7:30 p.m.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #666699; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Fridays
and Saturdays at 8 p.m.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #666699; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Sundays
at 2:30 p.m.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #666699; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: purple; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">For
tickets, call the Weathervane Box Office at 330/836-2626
or<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: purple; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">connect
online to</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">
<A href="http://www.weathervaneplayhouse.com/"><FONT
color=#800080>www.weathervaneplayhouse.com</FONT></A>.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><SPAN
style="COLOR: #666699; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p><FONT
size=2> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="COLOR: #666699; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica"><o:p><FONT
face=Helvetica size=2> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica"><FONT size=2><FONT
face=Helvetica>Our Cast<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=2><FONT
face=Helvetica><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">Ian Haberman</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">…Adolph Freitag (Sharon
Center)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=2><FONT
face=Helvetica><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">Jo</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica"> <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">McGarvey</B>…Boo Levy (Cuyahoga
Falls)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=2><FONT
face=Helvetica><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">Marci Paolucci</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">…Reba Freitag (Cuyahoga
Falls)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=2><FONT
face=Helvetica><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">Scott Shriner</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">…Joe Farkas
(Akron)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=2><FONT
face=Helvetica><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">Jeremy Jenkins</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">…Peachy Weill
(Stow)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">Amanda
Davis</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">…Lala
Levy (Akron)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=2><FONT
face=Helvetica><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">Tess Burgler</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">…Sunny Freitag
(Akron)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="COLOR: #666699; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica"><o:p><FONT
face=Helvetica size=2> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica"><FONT size=2><FONT
face=Helvetica>Our Director<STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></STRONG></FONT></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=2><STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">NANCY
CATES</SPAN></STRONG><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica"><FONT
face=Helvetica> (director) returns to Weathervane after a string of previous
directing assignments for the Playhouse including “<EM><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: normal">Blithe Spirit</SPAN></EM>,” “<EM><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: normal">A Man for All Seasons</SPAN></EM>,” “<EM><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: normal">The Two Gentlemen of Verona</SPAN></EM>,” “<EM><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: normal">Communicating Doors</SPAN></EM>,” “<EM><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: normal">Gypsy</SPAN></EM>,” “<EM><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: normal">Lend Me a Tenor</SPAN></EM>,” “<EM><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: normal">All My Sons,”</SPAN></EM> “<EM><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: normal">Moon Over Buffalo” and</SPAN> </EM><EM><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: normal">“Bloody Murder</SPAN></EM>.” She and her husband,
Terry Burgler, are the Founding Artistic Directors of Ohio Shakespeare Festival
and the Artistic Directors of Coach House Theatre -- both Akron venues being
enthusiastic supporters of Weathervane. Nancy is a member of the Society of
Stage Directors and Choreographers (SSDC). She lives in
Kent.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV align=center><FONT face=Arial color=#800000
size=5><STRONG>4.</STRONG></FONT></DIV><FONT face=Arial size=5>
<H4 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><FONT
size=5>NEWS RELEASE<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></I></H4>
<H5 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica">Weathervane
Playhouse<o:p></o:p></SPAN></H5>
<H1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><EM>CONTACT: Janis L.
Harcar<o:p></o:p></EM></SPAN></H1>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><STRONG>330-836-2626<o:p></o:p></STRONG></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=center><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><o:p><FONT
size=2><STRONG> </STRONG></FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; COLOR: #3366ff; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><STRONG>Weathervane
Playhouse Stages Tony-Winning<o:p></o:p></STRONG></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><SPAN><STRONG>‘The Goat or, Who Is
Sylvia?’<o:p></o:p></STRONG></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><o:p><FONT
size=2> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<H1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=center><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><EM>Edward Albee’s Controversial
Drama Plays in Weathervane’s Intimate<o:p></o:p></EM></SPAN></H1>
<H1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=center><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><EM>John L. Dietz Theater
Beginning Oct. 29, 2009<o:p></o:p></EM></SPAN></H1>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=center><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">(Oct.
23, 2009 – Akron, Ohio – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE) – Weathervane Playhouse presents
Edward Albee’s provocative drama about marital discord and its consequences,
“The Goat or, Who is Sylvia?,” live on stage between Oct. 29 and Nov. 14, 2009.
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Legendary
American playwright Edward Albee – perhaps best known for his “Who’s Afraid of
Virginia Woolf?” – has fashioned an explosive drama about a family in crisis.
Martin, an eminent architect, has just reached his 50<SUP>th</SUP> birthday and
been awarded the top prize in his profession. Burdened by a dark secret he can
no longer keep, Martin tells his best friend, Ross, that he has engaged in an
adulterous, extramarital affair.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Once
Martin’s vulnerable wife, Stevie, learns of his infidelity, the sparks fly and
the gloves come off between husband and wife – exploding all charades in a
marital free-for-all. Playwright Albee frames the events within a theatrical
structure that tears down the boundaries between realism and absurdism.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Martin’s outrageous confession
challenges the audience’s limits of tolerance.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">“The
Goat or, Who is Sylvia?” won the 2002 Tony Award for Best
Play.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><FONT size=3>Under the direction of Derek
Davidson, “The Goat or, Who is Sylvia?” is presented in Weathervane’s John L.
Dietz Theater, its intimate 48-seat “black box” theater.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><FONT size=3>“The Goat or, Who is Sylvia?” is
presented by a generous grant from Margaret J.
Dietz.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=center><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><STRONG>The
production contains adult language and mature
themes.<o:p></o:p></STRONG></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><STRONG>The
production is not suitable for children.<o:p></o:p></STRONG></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=center><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=center><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=center><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><U><FONT size=3>The Cast of “The Goat or, Who is
Sylvia?” and their Hometowns<o:p></o:p></FONT></U></SPAN></H3>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">RICHARD
WORSWICK (Martin) – Bath Township<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">DEDE
KLEIN (Stevie) – Hudson<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">VINCENT
RICHARDS (Ross) – Uniontown<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">KEITH
FOSTER (Billy) – Stow<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><U><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><o:p><SPAN style="TEXT-DECORATION: none"><FONT
size=3> </FONT></SPAN></o:p></SPAN></U></H2>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><U><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><FONT size=3>About the Play’s
Director<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></U></H2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><BR><STRONG>Derek
Davidson</STRONG> makes his Weathervane Playhouse directorial debut with “The
Goat or, Who is Sylvia?” He is a playwright, director and filmmaker who is
currently teaching at Marietta College and at Carnegie Mellon University. Before
he recently relocated to Northeast Ohio, he taught at Appalachian State
University in Boone, North Carolina, and was an associate artistic director at
the Barter Theatre in Abingdon, Virginia, where he also coordinated the
Appalachian Festival of Plays and Playwrights. He has directed his own
adaptations of “Mother Courage and Her Children” and “As You Like It.” He wrote
the award-winning play “The Road Where It Curves Away.” His film, This is Not
the South, has played at numerous festivals and recently won Best Feature at the
SkyFest in Asheville, North Carolina. At present, Mr. Davidson lives in New
Philadelphia with his wife, Karen Sabo.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><U><FONT size=3>Background on the Play and its
Performance History<o:p></o:p></FONT></U></SPAN></H3>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><FONT size=2>Playwright Edward Albee is a theater
artist not afraid to challenge the conventions of both art and society at large.
The outrageous object of Martin’s affection serves as a litmus test of sorts for
both the play’s characters as well as the audience’s
sympathies.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">With
its savage humor, Albee’s play can provoke simultaneous reactions of shock,
disgust and even humor. The noted theater critic and educator Robert Brustein,
in his book “Millennial Stages: Essays and Reviews 2001-2005,” declared that he
“found it possible to have a number of quite contradictory responses to this
play…all of them cunningly machined by the playwright in his most mischievous
mood.”<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Summing
up Albee’s artistic roguishness on display in the play, Brustein adds, “<I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Goat</I> may be the first Albee play in
which the very structure of the work is an act of prestidigitation. With the
dramatist pulling one theatrical trick after the other out of his conjuring hat,
you leave the theatre uncertain whether you’ve seen a conventional Broadway
adultery drama, a sex comedy on the subject of bestiality, or a Nietzschean
attempt to transvaluate our values about what constitutes ‘normal’
behavior.”<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><FONT
size=2><EM><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica">The Goat, or Who is
Sylvia?</SPAN></EM><EM><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica">
received its world premiere in New York City, where it </SPAN></EM><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica">opened on Broadway at the John Golden Theatre on
March 10, 2002. The production played for a total of 309 performances before
closing on December 15, 2002. The original cast featured Bill Pullman as Martin
and Mercedes Ruehl as Stevie; Bill Irwin and Sally Field later replaced the
show’s two original lead actors.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><FONT size=3><FONT size=2>The play won the 2002
Tony Award for Best Play as well as the 2002 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding
New Play. The play also was nominated for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama (but
lost to <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Anna in the Tropics</I> by Nilo
Cruz). A 2004 production in London’s West End theater district starred Jonathan
Pryce as Martin and his real-life wife, Kate Fahy, as Stevie.</FONT>
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<P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><U><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><FONT size=3>About the
Playwright<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></U></P>
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<DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><SPAN><FONT
face=Helvetica><FONT size=2>EDWARD ALBEE is perhaps best known for his
association with the artistic movement of the 1950s and early 1960s more
popularly regarded as "the theater of the absurd." Born in Washington, D.C., on
March 12, 1928, Albee’s parents abandoned him as a baby. A wealthy couple who
owned a theatre chain, Reed and Frances Albee, adopted the infant boy. The
Albees named their son after his adoptive paternal grandfather, Edward Franklin
Albee, a powerful vaudeville producer who had made the family fortune as a
partner in the Keith-Albee Theater
Circuit.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Despite
the lavish environment in which he grew up in affluent Westchester, New York, he
was, by most accounts, unhappy. He attended Trinity College, a small liberal
arts school in Hartford, Connecticut for a year. After failing to show up for
the school’s chapel services, as well as certain classes, Albee was dismissed by
the school. At the age of 20, Albee left home and settled in Greenwich Village
in New York City. He took on various jobs, including the roles of<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“office boy,” record salesman, and
Western Union messenger. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">During
his early years in Manhattan, he also began to meet other writers, including
Thornton Wilder and W.H. Auden. It was Wilder who suggested that he try his hand
at plays. At the age of 30, Albee wrote his first play, <EM>The Zoo Story</EM>,
in a quick, three-week period. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Albee's
first full-length, three-act play was “<EM><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: normal">Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?</SPAN></EM>,” and its
1962 Broadway production won the Tony Award for Best Play. Centered on fractured
family relationships, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” won him international
fame and opened new doors of artistic opportunities.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><FONT size=2>Albee’s other plays include “The
American Dream,” “Tiny Alice,” “A Delicate Balance” (Pulitzer Prize- and Tony
Award-winner) “All Over,” “Seascape” (Pulitzer Prize-winner), “The Lady From
Dubuque,” “The Man Who Had Three Arms,” “Finding the Sun,” “Three Tall Women”
(Pulitzer Prize-winner), “Fragments,” “The Play About the Baby” and “Occupant.”
He is a member of the Dramatists Guild Council and president of the Edward F.
Albee Foundation. He was awarded the Gold Medal in Drama from the American
Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1980 and in 1996 received the
Kennedy Center Honors and the National Medal of
Arts.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><o:p><FONT
size=2> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><FONT size=2>Ever the iconoclast, Albee himself
once summed up his career for an interviewer by declaring, "I have been both
overpraised and underpraised. I assume by the time I finish writing – and I plan
to go on writing until I'm 90 or gaga – it will all equal itself out. You can't
involve yourself with the vicissitudes of fashion or critical
response."<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><o:p><FONT
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><U><FONT size=3>Performance and Ticket
Information<o:p></o:p></FONT></U></SPAN></H3>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><FONT size=3>“The Goat or, Who is Sylvia?” plays
for 11 performances in Weathervane’s John L. Dietz Theater from Oct. 29 to Nov.
14, 2009. Performances are Thursdays at 7:30 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays at 8
p.m. and Sundays at 2:30 p.m.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><FONT size=3>For tickets ($18 each), call the
Weathervane Box Office at (330) 836-2626 (Mondays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and
Tuesdays through Fridays between 10 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.) or connect online to
</FONT><A href="http://www.weathervaneplayhouse.com/"><FONT color=#800080
size=3>www.weathervaneplayhouse.com</FONT></A><FONT size=3>. The 48-seat Dietz
Theater features general-admission seating only.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Weathervane
Playhouse and its dedicated volunteers offer vital performing arts resources for
the people of Northeastern Ohio. We create exciting and thought-provoking shows
with impressive production values. Through educational programs and volunteer
opportunities for people of all ages and backgrounds, Weathervane serves the
theater community, our patrons and our volunteers.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">The
Ohio Arts Council helped fund this program with state tax dollars to encourage
economic growth, education excellence and cultural enrichment for all
Ohioans.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Additional
2009-2010 season sponsors:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></P>
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WAKR-AM<o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></P>
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WSKU-FM<o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></P>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Janis Harcar<BR>Director of
Advancement<BR>Weathervane Playhouse<BR>330-836-2323 X16<BR><A
href="http://www.weathervaneplayhouse.com">www.weathervaneplayhouse.com</A></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>