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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><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18pt'><B>By Keith Huff <BR>
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<I>Be sure to see this production. <BR>
The performances by Scott Plate and Jeremy Kendall are not to be missed.<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>“...</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'><FONT COLOR="#800080"><FONT FACE="Georgia, Times New Roman"><B>Scott Plate turns in a recent career-high turn as the painfully introverted Joey...<BR>
...Jeremy Kendall unleashes torrents of violent frustration as Denny...”<BR>
</B></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Georgia, Times New Roman"><B><FONT COLOR="#343D4A"><I> -Tony Brown, Cleveland Plain Dealer<BR>
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<SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'><FONT COLOR="#008000"><FONT FACE="Georgia, Times New Roman"><B>From the moment the lights dim and the proverbial curtain rises, the viewer is caught up in a vortex of shifting sympathies and emotions that leaves one breathless. Joel Hammer’s taut direction and explosive acting by Scott Plate and Jeremy Kendall make for an evening of theater you won’t want to miss.
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<SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'><FONT FACE="Georgia, Times New Roman"><B><I>-Fran Heller, Cleveland Jewish News <BR>
</I><FONT COLOR="#00007F">“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>
</FONT><I>- Christine Howey, Cleveland Heights Patch<BR>
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</FONT></I><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>
</FONT><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></SPAN><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16pt'>Performance Times and Dates:<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT COLOR="#00007F"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>Thursday, 3/17 — 7:30 p.m.<BR>
Friday, 3/18 — 8:00 p.m.<BR>
Saturday, 3/19 — 8:00 p.m.<BR>
Sunday, 3/20 — 2:30 p.m.<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><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"> </FONT></SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'><BR>
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