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<h1><span style="color: red;">The University of Akron<br></span></h1>
<h2><span style="color: red;">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: red;"></span></h2>
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</span><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><b>Date: April 12th, 2010</b></p>
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<h3><span style="font-size: 12pt;">From:<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>School of Dance, Theatre, and
Arts Administration</span></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>The University of Akron</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Contact: <span style=""> </span>Brian
Marshall</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.6in;"><span style=""> </span>(330) 972-7895</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.6in;"><span style=""> </span><a href="mailto:administration.arts@gmail.com">administration.arts@gmail.com</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style=""> </span>(Akron,
OH)— The University of Akron School of Dance, Theatre, and Arts Administration is offering <b>50 FREE TICKETS</b> to the first callers for the remaining performances of
Jim Leonard, Jr.’s <i>The Diviners</i><span style="font-style: normal;">, a timely
and poignantly humorous play about a Midwest farm town’s struggles during the
Great Depression of the 1930s. UA faculty member Stephen Skiles directs the
play, which concludes its run April 15, 16, 17 at Paul A. Daum Theatre in Kolbe Hall on the
University of Akron campus. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style=""> </span>“The
Diviners is about a search. Everyone in this play is searching for something
divine, whether in themselves or someone else, that can help them in a
difficult economic time,” said Skiles, who directs this American College
Theatre Festival-winning play. “It’s a good look at ourselves through the lens
of a similar period of time.” </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; line-height: 150%;"><span class="apple-style-span"><i>The Diviners</i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="apple-style-span">is the
story of Buddy Layman, a young man with a fear of water but a talent for
divining it and the unlikely—and ultimately life-changing—friendship he
develops with C.C. Showers, a disenchanted former preacher searching for his
identity. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in; line-height: 150%;">The play, set in
the American heartland during the Great Depression, resonates in 2010, when the
nation is battling a 10 percent unemployment rate and economic distress. Leonard’s
<i>The Diviners</i><span style="font-style: normal;">, could be described as a
companion piece to Steinbeck’s American classic, </span><i>The Grapes of Wrath</i><span style="font-style: normal;">, and gives a glimpse at the tribulations of the people
who stayed behind while the Joads headed west. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thursday through Saturday April 15-17 at 8 p.m.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">Paul A. Daum Theater in Kolbe Hall,
University of Akron campus</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">$12 general admission</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">$10 seniors, UA faculty, staff, and alumni</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">$6 students</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b>50 Free Tickets Available - Call <span style=""></span>(330) 972-7895 or email <a href="mailto:administration.arts@gmail.com">administration.arts@gmail.com</a> and mention code BUDDY<br>
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