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<h1 style="font: 12pt sans-serif; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);
text-transform: uppercase; margin-bottom: -30px;"><strong>PRESS
RELEASE</strong><br>
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</h1>
<p style="font: 10pt sans-serif;" align="right">Date:
6-10-11</p>
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<p style="font: 10pt sans-serif;">Contact: Andrew Rothman<br>
From: Chagrin Valley Little Theatre </p>
<p style="font: 10pt sans-serif;">40 River Street<br>
Chagrin Falls, OH 44122<br>
Phone: 440-247-8955<br>
E-mail: <a href="mailto:cvlt@cvlt.org">cvlt@cvlt.org</a><br>
Website: <a href="http://www.cvlt.org/">www.cvlt.org</a></p>
<h2 style="font: bold 12pt sans-serif; text-transform:
uppercase;">CVLT's “10-10 Festival” returns with 10 new
10-minute plays</h2>
<p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; font-family:
arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">CHAGRIN FALLS, OH
- In June of 2009, Chagrin Valley Little Theatre launched
THE 10-10 NEW PLAYS FESTIVAL at its River Street
Playhouse, a smaller venue adjacent to the main theater
building. THE 10-10 FESTIVAL<em></em> was designed to give
burgeoning playwrights and directors a chance to shine
through an evening of ten plays, submitted directly by
their authors, each lasting roughly ten minutes. The 2009
production's six performances played near capacity to
great critical and audience response, so it was decided
that THE 10-10 should become a biennial event. CVLT again
called for scripts in its current 81st consecutive season,
which a panel of CVLT members read (with the playwrights'
names held anonymous) and selected their favorites from.
On July 1, it all comes to fruition as a band of actors
premiere ten new one-acts, none of which have ever been
seen by audiences before. The topics and styles are as
broad as can be, from the tiny confines of a residential
bathroom to the outer regions of space and time.</p>
<p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; font-family:
arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">No location can
seem as tight as a shared vanity sink when you're in a
rush to get out of your house. THE BATHROOM by Robert
Fortlage of Beachwood is an imagined scene between a
middle-aged couple trying to co-navigate their cramped
bathroom on a Saturday morning, with conversation and
pantomime which should be familiar to anyone who has ever
shared a small bathroom with family<em>.</em> Also
examining married life is Chagrin Falls resident Amy
Pelleg, whose PEANUT BUTTER WARS is about a married
couple, Alice and Erica, who argue about a peanut butter
sandwich until they realize that the sandwich is not
really the problem. UNDER THE TABLE by Maureen Brady
Johnson of Oberlin, also deals with troubled love. When
Charlie married Maddie, they dreamed big dreams of their
life together, but things changed as real life intruded.
Can something under the table actually revive and bring
them back together?</p>
<p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; font-family:
arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">OR, WHAT YOU WILL
by Chagrin Falls' own Bob Abelman looks at love through a
Shakespearean lens, tapping the central characters,
language and melancholy of the comedy <em>Twelfth Night</em>
to tell a contemporary tale about unrequited love. The
play finds Orsino and Viola, newly separated from their
spouses (divorce and death, respectively), awkwardly
attempting to make a connection at a Christmas party.
Shakespeare's comedies often centered on mistaken
identity. Here, too, Orsino and Viola attempt to be what
they are not. </p>
<p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; font-family:
arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> THE 10-10 moves
from matters of the heart to matters of the mind. THE
SOMETHING SPECIAL COFFEEHOUSE by Janis Butler Holm of
Athens, OH, is an examination of class tension as two
executives try the patience of a coffee-shop cashier, and
A PENNY SAVED by Willoughby Hills' Gary Webster is the
tale of an ambitious television script writer who earns a
promotion for an unexpected reason. BIPOLAR PHYSICS by
Chagrin Falls native Rollin DeVere, is about a 'creation
of the universe' quarrel between astrophysicists
Basingstoke and Slatternly. The former espouses the
standard Big Bang theory, while the latter favors the new
Slow Leak hypothesis. Hasty words lead to insults in
various languages and result in a startling conclusion
proving nothing. </p>
<p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; font-family:
arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Matters of the
spirit are also touched on. In CLEAR HISTORY, by Leo
Simone of Aurora, introduces Carl Sunview, a middle aged
man who is finding it so hard to move forward in his life
that he decides to see a psychiatrist. Fortunately for
him, his new doctor is developing an iPad app that is sure
to do the trick. WHEN ALL IS POSSIBLE by Jonathan Wilhelm
of Cleveland Heights, takes place on a late summer day, as
a man and a boy meet on a mountaintop. The man escapes
into the memories of his past as the boy faces the unknown
future. We learn that making it to the top of the mountain
doesn't mean you know how to get down again.</p>
<p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; font-family:
arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Rounding out the
selections is MRS. KENNEDY DOESN'T DO CHORES by Cynthia
Wilcox and Sarah Kellogg of Washington, D.C., which
illuminates the bittersweet moments we will all experience
when facing life's final mystery — what happens when we
die? When Mrs. Reynolds meets Andrew, a youthful visitor,
he turns out to be more knowing about her current plight
than even she understands. As she packs her home up for a
fateful trip, and comes to terms with her son's emotional
needs, Andrew helps her see that it isn't what we take
with us but what we leave behind that matters most.</p>
<p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; font-family:
arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><em>The 10-10
Festival</em> is directed by Yvonne E. Pilarczyk and Sue
Beattie, and stars Ralph Beattie, Natalie Dolezal, Claudia
Lillibridge, Doug Lillibridge, Mark Moore, Catherine
Remick, Richard Szczepinski, Bill Sonnie, Bobby Thomas,
and Adrienne Wasserman.</p>
<p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; font-family:
arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Performances are
on Friday and Saturday evenings at 8 PM from July 1
through June 16. The River Street Playhouse is located at
56 River Street in Chagrin Falls. All tickets are $10 and
can be purchased online 24 hours a day at <a
href="http://www.CVLT.org">www.CVLT.org</a>, or by
calling the Box Office at 440-247-8955 between 1 and 6 PM,
Monday through Saturday.</p>
<p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; font-family:
arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Chagrin Valley
Little Theatre is generously funded by Cuyahoga County
residents through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture and is
supported by the Ohio Arts Council.</p>
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