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</SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18pt'><B>By Annie Baker <BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="4"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14pt'><I>Directed by</I> </SPAN></FONT></B><FONT SIZE="4"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14pt'>Juliette Regnier<BR>
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<FONT FACE="Century"><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18pt'><B><FONT COLOR="#000080">What Cleveland Critics said:<BR>
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</B></SPAN></FONT></FONT><B><FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>“</SPAN></FONT></FONT></B><FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>Dobama Theatre ends its season with "Circle Mirror Transformation," a play so warm, humanistic and forthright that you wish it could date your sister.”<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><I>Keith Joseph — Eunuch in the Harem<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>“But because of all the good theater work done here -- <I>in</I> the play and <I>on</I> the play -- no one seeing "Circle Mirror Transformation" will find himself or herself counting the minutes.”<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>“Smartly directed by Juliette Regnier and performed by a spot-on ensemble, “Circle” is a funny, sad and clever play that makes you laugh in one instant and breaks your heart in the next.”<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><I>Fran Heller — Cleveland Jewish News<BR>
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</B></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>“those willing to finish the breaths started by the actors . . . able to connect with the wonderfully nuanced performances by each of the actors will be rewarded.” <BR>
</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><I>Bob Abelman — News-Herald
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</B></FONT><B><FONT COLOR="#7F120A"><FONT FACE="Arial">Performance Dates and Times<BR>
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Thursdays 5/5, 5/12 @ 7:30 pm<BR>
Fridays 5/6, 5/13 @ 8:00 pm<BR>
Saturdays 5/7, 5/14 @ 8:00 pm<BR>
Sundays 5/8, 5/15 @ 2:30 pm
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<B><I><FONT SIZE="5"><FONT FACE="Century"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18pt'>Featuring</SPAN></FONT></FONT></I><FONT SIZE="5"><FONT FACE="Century"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18pt'> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></B><FONT SIZE="5"><FONT FACE="Century"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16pt'>Molly Cornwell*, Bob Ellis*, <BR>
Leighann Niles DeLorenzo, Allison Bencar, and Joe Milan. </SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16pt'><FONT FACE="Arial"> <BR>
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</SPAN><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14pt'><I>Synopsis </I></SPAN></FONT></B><FONT SIZE="4"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14pt'><I> – CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION follows five small-town Vermonters as they take a community acting class, each with their own expectations. They soon learn more about each other and themselves than they bargained for. In this hilarious and touching play, we catch glimpses of the poignant drama that animates ordinary lives. Called an “absorbing, unblinking and sharply funny play” by The New York Times, CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION celebrates the subtle and surprising power of creativity.<BR>
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CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION premiered in New York at Playwrights Horizons, won the 2010 Obie Award for Best New American Play and was voted one of the top ten plays of 2009 by The New York Times, Time Out New York, and The New Yorker. It was recently named one of the best plays of 2009-2010 in the latest edition of The Best Plays Theater Yearbook.<BR>
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</I></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT SIZE="4"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14pt'><FONT COLOR="#7F0000"><FONT FACE="Andale Mono"><B>“Baker had charmed us into her circle, forced us to look into her mirror, and transformed our impressions.” - <I>The Washingtonian.com
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<FONT SIZE="4"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14pt'><FONT FACE="Andale Mono"><B><FONT COLOR="#0000FD">“Baker manages to enact what makes theater the most human of all the arts.” - <I>Los Angeles Times<BR>
</I></FONT><FONT COLOR="#007E00">“Annie Baker’s ... absorbing, unblinking and sharply funny.” -
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<FONT SIZE="4"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14pt'><FONT FACE="Andale Mono"><B><FONT COLOR="#007E00"><I>New York Times <BR>
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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></FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'> <BR>
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