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font-style:italic'>Lorain County Community College Theatre Program Presents...<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
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face=Verdana><span style='font-size:22.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#6C654D;
font-weight:bold'>The Bald Soprano<br>
<i><span style='font-style:italic'>An Anti-Play</span></i><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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color:#333333;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Wednesday-Saturday, April
14-17, 2010 at 7:30 PM<br>
Saturday, April 17, 2010 at 2:00 PM</span></font></i></b><b><font size=4
color="#333333" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
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<br>
by Eugène Ionesco<br>
Translated by Tina Howe<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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color:#333333;font-weight:bold'>Directed by Terence Cranendonk<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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size=2 color="#333333" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Verdana;color:#333333'>Often called the father of the Theater of the Absurd, <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Eugène Ionesco</span></b> wrote groundbreaking plays
that are simultaneously hilarious, tragic, and profound.<br>
In <i><span style='font-style:italic'>The Bald Soprano</span></i> Ionesco
throws together a cast of characters including the Smiths, their guests the
Martins, their maid Mary, and a fire chief determined to extinguish all fires
— including their hearths. It’s an archetypical absurdist tale and
Ionesco displays his profound take on the problems inherent in modern
communication.</span></font><font size=2 color="#333333" face=Verdana><span
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size=2 color="#333333" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Verdana;color:#333333'>Director <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Terence
Cranendonk</span></b> most recently directed productions of Brecht’s Good
Woman of Setzuan and his own adaptation of Euripides’ Iphigenia at <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Lake Erie</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">College</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>. Terence was co-founder,
performer, writer and director with Mustard Seed Theater Lab in <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">New York City</st1:City></st1:place> from 1986 to
1989. From 1992 to 1999, Terence was a member of the New World Performance
Laboratory, with whom he toured and performed throughout the Midwest, Europe
and <st1:place w:st="on">South America</st1:place>. From 1994 to 1999 he was
Director of Cleveland Public Theatre’s Annual New Plays Festival. As an
actor, Terence has performed Off Broadway and regionally at venues such as the
Kennedy Center, New York’s Public Theatre, Home for Contemporary Theatre,
and Target Margin. Local performances include the Musically Speaking series
with the Cleveland Orchestra; Crave with Theatre Ninjas; The Gamblers and
Confessions at Kennedy’s in Playhouse Square; Ferdinand the Bull and The
Nutcracker at Cleveland Playhouse; and Stars Fell All Night, The Hairy Ape, I
Dreamed of Rats, Fable of the Cloister of Cemeteries, Woyzeck, and The Book of
Saints and Martyrs at Cleveland Public Theatre. In addition, Terence has taught
acting and dramatic literature at The University of Akron,
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Cuyahoga</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Community College</st1:PlaceType>, and was recently a
Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Lake Erie</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">College</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>.</span></font><font
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=3
color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:blue;font-weight:
bold'> Kaitlin Kelly, Colin McCauley, Sara Rhodes, James Brassfield, Lisa
Palinkas and Shawn Everiss as the Fire Chief!<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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