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<!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
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normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial">presents<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:Arial">the NWPL Studio 2 production of <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:28.0pt;
font-family:Arial">A Couple of Poor, Polish-Speaking Roman ians<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:Arial">AREA PREMIERE OF HILARIOUS AND CHALLENGING WORK BY
CONTEMPORARY POLISH PLAYWRIGHT<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial">Akron,
OH--The Center for Applied Theatre and Active Culture (CATAC) <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>is pleased to present the New World
Performance Laboratory Studio 2 production of the area premiere of “A Couple of
Poor, Polish-Speaking Romanians” by Dorota Maslowska (translated into English
by Benjamin Paloff) on June 7, 8, 9, 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23 (Thursday—Saturday)
at 8:00 pm in the Balch Street Theatre, 220 South Balch Street, Akron OH,
44302. Directed by NWPL Co-Artistic Director James Slowiak, set and costume
design by Inda Blatch-Geib, and lighting design by Steven Bornhoeft, this hilarious,
dark, contemporary work tells the story of a drug-induced, wild road-trip
across Poland that highlights the challenges we all face with identity, class,
and xenophobia.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Admission is $10 (2 for
1 on Thursday). For mature audiences.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Reservations
can be made by calling 330-867-3299 or online at <a href="http://www.brownpapertickets.com">www.brownpapertickets.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial">Blighty, a
Polish TV-actor in disguise, and Gina, a young poverty-stricken pregnant mother,
leave a party high on drugs and set off on a crazy road-trip claiming to be “Polish-speaking
Romanians.”<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The masquerade soon turns sour
as they hijack cars, terrorize drivers, and cause mayhem.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>When their drug-induced frenzy calms down,
they become victims of their own fiction and awaken to the cold reality of a
world without compassion for alien immigrants, poverty, or the economic and
social rift between the classes.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial">Dorota
Maslowska is a literary sensation in her native Poland and has been hailed as a
major post-modernist writer around the world.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span><span style="color:#1F242E">At 19, she wrote the internationally
acclaimed, award-winning novel, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Snow White and Russian Red</i></b>, “a
depiction of unbalanced, sexually aggressive, amphetamine-scarred youth both
feted for its originality and condemned for its brutal vulgarity.” At 24 she
wrote her first play: <b><i>A Couple of Poor, Polish-Speaking Romanians</i></b>.
The play ran for 2 years in Warsaw, and has been produced globally, including
English language productions in London, Chicago, New York, Prague, and
Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>NWPL’s Studio 2 production is an
area premiere of this important and challenging contemporary theatre work.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial">NWPL’s
Studio 2 is a project to introduce a new generation of theatre artists to the
methodology and work of New World Performance Laboratory.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>For 20 years, New World Performance
Laboratory has been creating internationally acclaimed theatre in its home
Akron, Ohio.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial">For more
information, call 330-867-3299, email <a href="mailto:nwplab@gmail.com">nwplab@gmail.com</a>
or visit CATAC/NWPL’s website at <a href="http://www.nwplab.com">www.nwplab.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial">A Couple of Poor, Polish-Speaking Romanians<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">A New World Performance Laboratory Studio 2
production<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Produced by Center for Applied Theatre and Active
Culture (CATAC)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Playwright:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Dorota Maslowska<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Translator:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Benjamin Paloff<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Cast:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Jovana
Bukvic, India Burton, Christopher Hariasz, Avery McCullough, Bobby Round, Kim
Woodworth<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Director:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>James Slowiak<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Stage Manager:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Sarah Jones<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Set/Costume Designer:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Inda Blatch-Geib<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Lighting Designer:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Steven Bornhoeft<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana">Opens: Thursday, June 7, 2012 at 8 PM.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana">Closes: Saturday June 23, 2012 at 8 PM.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana">Runs: Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 PM.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana">Admission: $10 (2-for-1 on Thursdays)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana">Where: The Balch Street Theatre, 220 South Balch
Street, Akron, OH 44302<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana">Info/Reservations: 330-867-3299<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana">To purchase tickets online: <a href="http://www.brownpapertickets.com">www.brownpapertickets.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana">Website:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span><a href="http://www.nwplab.com">www.nwplab.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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