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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>There
is still time to register for this free event—to ensure you get a seat,
please R.S.V.P by Wednesday, September 20th to <a href="mailto:EMAIL">fsholiton@ix.netcom.com</a>.
Details below:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'> <span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The
Dramatists Guild (Ohio Region) has teamed with Cleveland Public Theatre and
Cleveland State University to present a daylong symposium, “Holding Our
Tongue: Censorship in the Theatre.” The event, held free of charge, runs <b>Saturday,
September</b> <b>25<sup>th</sup></b>, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Cleveland Public
Theatre, 6415 Detroit Avenue, Cleveland.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Headlining
the program is Turkish playwright Özen Yula, who is spending nine months in
Cleveland as the first visiting artist of the Cleveland Foundation’s
Creative Fusion Program, an international cultural exchange project.
Yula’s comedy <i>Lick But Don’t Swallow </i>was slated for a
February opening in Istanbul but was closed after being declared blasphemous by
a newspaper. The program includes welcoming remarks from DG Executive Director
of Creative Affairs, Gary Garrison; a conversation between Plain Dealer theater
critic Tony Brown and Özen Yula; remarks from Dr. Michael Mauldin on
Yula’s residency at CSU; and optional tours of the newly restored Gordon
Square Arts District and Cleveland Public Theatre. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Following
lunch at neighborhood restaurants, CPT will present the first English language
staged reading of Yula’s banned script. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>An
afternoon panel of DG members will address the economic, artistic and legal
aspects of censorship closer to home: Ari Roth, artistic director of Washington
D.C.’s Theater J; Palestinian-American playwright Betty Shamieh; and DG
Director for Business Affairs, David Faux. Raymond Bobgan, CPT’s
executive artistic director will moderate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> The
program is made possible by a generous grant from the Cleveland Foundation,
with additional support from the guild. Reservations are required and are
available by contacting <a href="mailto:EMAIL">fsholiton@ix.netcom.com</a></span><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:150%'> </span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>no
later than September 20<sup>th</sup>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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