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<TITLE>DOBAMA THEATRE--BLUE DOOR by Tanya Barfield</TITLE>
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<FONT SIZE="5"><FONT FACE="Garamond"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16pt'><B>DOBAMA Theatre presents<BR>
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thru Feb 21, 2010
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“Small play packs powerful wallop on Dobama stage”<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="5"><FONT FACE="Times, Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18pt'><B>Thought provoking, well conceived ‘BLUE DOOR’ at Dobama<BR>
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</B></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16px'>T<SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>wo exceptional actors embody three generations as Lewis, an African American math professor, struggles with his crisis of identity and culture and what it means to be black. Tanya Barfield’s BLUE DOOR is an exuberantly theatrical work about the black male experience in America and will resonate with anyone who has ever struggled to live with – or escape – the past. <BR>
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<SPAN STYLE='font-size:16px'><FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14pt'><B><I>Directed by</I> Scott Plate<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="4"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14pt'><I>Featuring </I>Geoff Short and Rod Lawrence
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<SPAN STYLE='font-size:16px'><FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14pt'><B>Ticket prices:<BR>
</B></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><B><FONT COLOR="#FF0000"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'><I>Flat student rate: $10<BR>
</I></SPAN></FONT></B><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>Thu/Sun: reg $17, sr $15<BR>
Fri/Sat: reg $22, sr $20<BR>
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</B></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT SIZE="4"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14pt'><B>Dobama Theatre, 2340 Lee Road, Cleveland Hts.<BR>
Located across from the CH/UH Library. Free parking.<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14pt'><B>For ticket information, please call the box office at (216) 932-3396, or go to www.dobama.org <BR>
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Fri 2/5, 8:00 pm<BR>
Sat 2/6, 8:00 pm<BR>
Sun 2/7, 2:30 pm<BR>
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Thu 2/11, 7:30 pm<BR>
Fri 2/12, 8:00 pm<BR>
Sat 2/13, 8:00 pm<BR>
Sun 2/14, 2:30 pm<BR>
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<B>Thu 2/18, 7:30 pm<BR>
Fri 2/19, 8:00 pm<BR>
Sat 2/20, 8:00 pm<BR>
Sun 2/21, 2:30 pm<BR>
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