<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="text-align: center; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><b>Actors Make Adaptation of 'Bluest Eye' Sizzle </b></font></div><div style="text-align: center; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">By Managing Artistic Director Benjamin Rexroad</font></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; "><br></span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; ">Until I saw the <em>Bluest Eye</em>, directed by Fred Sternfeld at Karamu House in Cleveland, I don’t think I had ever watched a production that inspired two contradictory trains of thought.</span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><p>Before I explain those divergent trains, a background of the play<em> </em>is necessary<em>. The Bluest Eye </em>is adapted from Noble Prize-winning author Toni Morrison’s novel of the same name. The story centers on young Pecola Breedlove, a black girl living in Ohio in the years immediately following the Great Depression. Pecola faces racism, incest and child molestation and, consequently, the book is banned from schools and libraries across the country.</p></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-large; "><b>Finish Reading At: </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><a href="http://www.headsupproductions.net/">http://www.headsupproductions.net</a><b> </b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><b><br></b></font></div></body></html>