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THEATRE OF CLEVELAND</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;
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19.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Celeste Cosentino, Artistic Director</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:
13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">HORTON FOOTE”S
“DIVIDING THE ESTATE” OPENS ENSEMBLE THEATRE’S 31<sup>ST</sup> SEASON!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:
13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:
16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Ensemble
Theatre’s <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">opens its 31<sup>st</sup>
consecutive season </span>November 19</span><sup><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:
13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">th</span></sup><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial"> with Horton Foote’s American classic <b><i>Dividing the Estate</i></b>,
directed by Sarah May. It will run in the Brooks Theatre at The Cleveland
Play House through December 12th</span></p>
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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:
16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:
16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Fresh from a
successful Broadway revival, <b><i>Dividing the Estate</i></b> is a funny, touching
and timely portrait of a Southern family wrangling over the future of the
family <span style="mso-bidi-font-style:italic">home<i> </i></span>during an
economic downturn. </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:
18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:
18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia">In the play
matriarch Stella Gordon is determined not to divide her</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
Georgia"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia">100-year-old Texas estate, despite her
family's declining wealth and the looming financial crisis. But</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
Georgia"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia">her three children have another plan.
Old resentments and sibling rivalries surface as the members of this
hilariously dysfunctional - or perhaps all
too functional- family go head to head to see who might claim
the biggest piece of the pie in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i>Dividing
the Estate.</i></b></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:
16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:
16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Ensemble Theatre
is proud to celebrate the life and work of playwright <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold;mso-bidi-font-style:italic">Horton </span>Foote who recently passed away at
the age of 92. This is the fifth production of a Horton Foote play presented by
Ensemble Theatre, including Pulitzer Prize winner <b><i>The Young Man from
Atlanta</i></b>, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">The<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-style:italic">
Trip to Bountiful</span></i></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic">, and most recently <b><i>The Carpetbagger’s
Children</i></b>. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:
16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:
16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Often called
“America’s storyteller” or the “Chekhov of small town America” Horton Foote was
a beloved writer whose work spanned many live dramas of early television, Oscar
winning screenplays for <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">To Kill a Mockingbird</i></b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Tender
Mercies</i></b>, and more than 50 stage plays.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>President Bill Clinton awarded him the National Medal of the
Arts in 2000. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:
16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:
16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Director Sarah
May returns to Ensemble Theatre to direct a wonderful cast in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Dividing
the Estate</i></b>. Her best known work includes <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Having Our Say</i></b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Paul
Robeson</i></b> for Ensemble, the Dobama/Karamu co-production of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Caroline,
or Change</i></b>, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">History Boys</i></b> at Beck, and Charenton’s <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Six Degrees of Separation</i></b>.
Sarah’s staging of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">Wings</i></b>, starring Dorothy Silver, was seen at Beck Center earlier
this season</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:
16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:
16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold;mso-bidi-font-style:italic"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-style:italic">Join
a star-studded cast including Bernice Bolek, star of Ensemble’s 2004 revival of
<b><i>The Trip to Bountiful</i></b>; Anne McEvoy and Robert Hawkes from the
cast of the critically acclaimed <b><i>Wings</i></b> at the Beck Center; Laurel
Johnson most recently seen in </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman Bold Italic";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-style:italic">Brain People</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-style:italic"> at Convergence
Continuum and <b><i>Humble Boy </i></b>at Dobama, and other well known Cleveland
actors Valerie Young, Mark Cipra, Renee Mathews-Jackson, Aaron D. Elersich,
Sara Masterson, Gregory White, Kayla McDonald, Emily Pucell and Nadine Ndanema
for an event not to be missed this holiday season. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Come Home to
Ensemble this Holiday Season with Horton Foote’s <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Dividing the Estate.</i></b>
Opening Friday November 19<sup>th</sup> at 8pm, and running </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial">Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 2pm in the Brooks Theatre at
the Cleveland Play House, 8500 Euclid Ave. Cleveland OH 44106, through December
12.<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-style:italic"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">For Tickets call 216.321.2930 or purchase
online at <a href="http://www.ensemble-theatre.org">www.ensemble-theatre.org</a>.</span><span style="font-size:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Join the conversation on
Twitter @ensembletheater<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>or find
us “Ensemble Theatre Cleveland” on Facebook.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:
16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold;mso-bidi-font-style:italic"></span></p>
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<br>-- <br><div style="text-align:center"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i><font color="#663366"><b>"COME HOME TO </b></font></i></font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i><font color="#663366"><b>ENSEMBLE" </b></font></i></font></div>
<div style="text-align:center"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i><font color="#663366"><b>For Tickets and Subscription information:</b></font></i></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i><font color="#663366"><b>Call 216.321.2930 or email us at: <a href="mailto:info@ensemble-theatre.org" target="_blank">info@ensemble-theatre.org</a></b></font></i></font></div>
<div style="text-align:center"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i><font color="#663366"><b>Purchase tickets online! </b></font></i></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i><font color="#663366"><b>visit our website at: <a href="http://www.ensemble-theatre.org" target="_blank">www.ensemble-theatre.org</a></b></font></i></font></div>
<div style="text-align:center"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i><font color="#663366"><b><br></b></font></i></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i><font color="#663366"><b>2010-2011 Season. </b></font></i></font></div>
<div style="text-align:center"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i><font color="#663366"><b>"DIVIDING THE ESTATE"</b></font></i></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:x-small"><font color="#663366"><b> By Horton Foote</b></font></span></i></font></div>
<div style="text-align:center"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:x-small"><font color="#663366"><b> Directed by Sarah May</b></font></span></i></font></div><div style="text-align:center">
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:x-small"><font color="#663366"><b> November 19th- December 12th</b></font></span></i></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:x-small"><font color="#663366"><b> Brooks Theatre- The Cleveland Play House</b></font></span></i></font></div>
<div style="text-align:center"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:x-small"><font color="#663366"><b><br></b></font></span></i></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i><font color="#663366"><b>"FREE MAN OF COLOR"</b></font></i></font></div>
<div style="text-align:center"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:x-small"><font color="#663366"><b> By Charles Smith</b></font></span></i></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:x-small"><font color="#663366"><b> Directed by Tony Sias</b></font></span></i></font></div>
<div style="text-align:center"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:x-small"><font color="#663366"><b> February 10th- February 27th</b></font></span></i></font></div><div style="text-align:center">
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:x-small"><font color="#663366"><b> Notre Dame College Performing Arts Center</b></font></span></i></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:x-small"><font color="#663366"><b><br>
</b></font></span></i></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i><font color="#663366"><b>"HUCK AND HOLDEN"</b></font></i></font></div><div style="text-align:center">
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:x-small"><font color="#663366"><b> By Rajiv Joseph</b></font></span></i></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:x-small"><font color="#663366"><b> Directed by Celeste Cosentino</b></font></span></i></font></div>
<div style="text-align:center"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:x-small"><font color="#663366"><b> May 6th- May 29th</b></font></span></i></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:x-small"><font color="#663366"><b> Studio One Theatre- The Cleveland Play House</b></font></span></i></font></div>
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