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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">NEWS RELEASE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">CONTACT:
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Kathleen Caffrey, 216.521.2540 x22 or
<a href="mailto:kcaffrey@beckcenter.org">kcaffrey@beckcenter.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> February 1, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Beck Teen Theater presents
<i>Reckless </i>by Craig Lucas<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">A darkly comic tale of a modern-day Alice in a perilous winter wonderland</span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="Default" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext">Lakewood, OH—</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext">Beck Teen Theater presents
<i>Reckless</i>, a satirical comedy by Tony-nominated playwright, Craig Lucas in the Studio Theater,
<b>February 24 through March 4, 2012</b>. Show times are 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 3 p.m. Sundays. There is a special 10 a.m. student matinee Thursday, March 1.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Reckless</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> is an absurdist midwinter night’s dream directed by
<b>Jonathan Kronenberger</b>, Beck Center’s associate director of Theater Education, that features a talented cast of 16 teenage actors who are students at the Beck Center. “This is my third time directing this show and each time I return to the play, I find
it richer and funnier.” remarked Kronenberger. “It is particularly exciting having the input of these terrific young actors who have yet to truly understand the potential “surprises” that life can have in store.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">At home on Christmas Eve, the play’s heroine, Rachel is informed by her guilt-ridden husband that he has hired a hit man to kill her. Distraught,
she flees for her life by scrambling out the bedroom window and into the snowy night. Rachel’s adventure takes her from town to town where she meets a variety of bizarre characters and encounters an endless series of incredible coincidences. In the end, she
is forced to face the hard truth that it’s difficult, if not impossible, to really know people and that we lead reckless lives in which “things just happen.”
<i>The New York Times </i>called <i>Reckless</i> “a bittersweet Christmas fable for our time.
<i>It’s A Wonderful Life</i> as it might be reimagined for a bruising contemporary America.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">One of the quirky characters in the play is depicted as hearing impaired so the
<i>Reckless</i> cast has been working with members of The HeArd, a group of professional theatrical sign language interpreters, to learn basic sign language skills in preparation for their roles. Coincidentally, The HeArd will be signing an upcoming production
of <i>Alice in Wonderland</i> on February 26 at the Fine Arts Association in Willoughby. To learn more about The HeArd visit
<a href="http://www.heardwhatsup.com">www.heardwhatsup.com</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Tickets for
<i>Reckless</i> are $12 for Adult/Senior (65 and over) and $10 for Children/Student (18 and under). To purchase tickets, visit beckcenter.org or call 216.521.2540, ext. 10. Beck Center is located at 17801 Detroit Avenue in Lakewood, just 10 minutes west of
downtown Cleveland. Free onsite parking is available.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Beck Center’s production of
<i>Reckless </i>is presented through special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc. and is sponsored by Cuyahoga Arts and Culture, the Ohio Arts Council, and Music Is Elementary.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Beck Center for the Arts is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization that offers professional theater productions, arts education programming in
dance, music, theater, visual arts, early childhood, and creative arts therapies, and gallery exhibits featuring regional artists. For more information about the Beck Center, visit beckcenter.org.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Kathleen Caffrey<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Beck Center for the Arts / <i>Where Arts Matter<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Director of Marketing<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">216.521.2540 x.22<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:kcaffrey@beckcenter.org">kcaffrey@beckcenter.org</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#17365D"><a href="http://www.beckcenter.org/">beckcenter.org</a>
</span><span style="color:red">/</span><span style="color:#17365D"> <a href="https://co.clickandpledge.com/advanced/default.aspx?wid=36616">
Donate </a> </span><span style="color:red">/</span><span style="color:#17365D"> <a href="http://activenet6.active.com/beckcenter/">
NEW-Online Class Catalog</a> </span><span style="color:red">/</span><span style="color:#17365D">
<a href="http://sa1.seatadvisor.com/sabo/servlets/EventSearch?presenter=BECKCENTER">
On Stage</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color:red">Spring Awakening</span></i><span style="color:red">
</span></b><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#17365D"> </span></i></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#17365D">on the Mackey Main Stage Feb 3 - Mar 4 / Winner of
<b>8</b> Tony Awards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#17365D">"Breathtakenly, outrageously brilliant!" -
<i>NY TImes<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color:red">Reckless</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:red">
</span></i></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#17365D">presented by Beck Teen Theater / Studio Theater<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#17365D">February 24-26 & March 1-4
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