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<TITLE>FW: A STEADY RAIN opens at Dobama Theatre on Feb. 25</TITLE>
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<FONT SIZE="7"><FONT FACE="Century"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:28pt'><B>A STEADY RAIN<BR>
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<SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'><FONT COLOR="#00007F"><FONT FACE="Georgia, Times New Roman"><B>“Thanks to two sure-handed performances and tight, unfussy direction by Joel Hammer, Huff’s language crackles with the fearful urgency of gunfire in the night.”<BR>
- <I>Christine Howey, Cleveland Heights Patch<BR>
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</I></B></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Georgia, Times New Roman"><B><FONT COLOR="#800000">“Dobama’s production, under the focused direction of Joel Hammer, is mesmerizing. Filled with many thought-provoking scenes, actors Scott Plate and Jeremy Kendall wrench emotional fidelity from almost every scene.”<BR>
<I>- Roy Berko, The Times Newspapers<BR>
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<I>Synopsis<BR>
</I></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#252525"><FONT SIZE="5"><FONT FACE="Georgia, Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16pt'>A STEADY RAIN tells the story of two Chicago policemen, <BR>
lifelong friends, and their differing accounts of a few <BR>
harrowing days that changed their lives forever. <BR>
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</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#008000"><FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Century"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14pt'><I>Directed by</I> Joel Hammer, Artistic Director, Dobama Theatre<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="4"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14pt'><I>Featuring</I> Jeremy Kendall and Scott Plate*<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT SIZE="5"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16pt'><B>BOGO OFFER: Buy one regularly priced ticket, get one FREE. <BR>
<I>Offer good this weekend only. <BR>
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Thursday, 3/3 — 7:30 p.m.<BR>
Friday, 3/4 — 8:00 p.m.<BR>
Saturday, 3/5 — 8:00 p.m.<BR>
Sunday, 3/6 — 2:30 p.m.<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT></B></FONT></FONT><B><FONT COLOR="#70087F"><FONT FACE="Georgia, Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>"A STEADY RAIN is a thoroughly engrossing examination of the toll the job takes on those sworn to serve and protect, and how amorphous the line between criminal and cop can be.”<BR>
-<I>Chicago Sun-Times<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#4D247F">"A STEADY RAIN, a gritty, rich, thick, poetic and entirely gripping noir tale of two Chicago police officers whose inner need to serve and protect both consumes them and rips them apart.” <BR>
-<I>Chicago Tribune <BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#7F0C47">“Enough fiery, superbly rendered, often deeply poetic speeches, enough mood shifts, enough emotional cataclysms and action-packed storytelling to keep this hallucinatory roller-coaster ride in exciting motion.”<BR>
</FONT></SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'><FONT COLOR="#7F0C47"><FONT FACE="Cambria">-<I>Variety <BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Century"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'><B>For tickets and information<BR>
www.dobama.org<BR>
(216) 932-3396 <BR>
Dobama Theatre<BR>
At the Heights Library, 2340 Lee Road<BR>
Cleveland Heights, OH 44118</B></SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">
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