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<!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoSubtitle"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial">For Immediate
Release<span style="mso-tab-count:7"> </span>May
29, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoSubtitle"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Contact: James Slowiak<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoSubtitle"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Co-Artistic Director, NWPL<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoSubtitle"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">(330)867-3299<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoSubtitle"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"><a href="mailto:nwplab@gmail.com">nwplab@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoSubtitle"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.nwplab.com">www.nwplab.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></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">CATAC<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-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:24.0pt;
font-family:Arial">A Couple of Poor, Polish-Speaking Romanians<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:14.0pt;
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:14.0pt;
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>As the
playwright points out:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>“The main axis of
this play is poverty being treated as something exotic, a costume that can be
put on. The man, [Blighty], thinks that, as an actor, he can put on the make-up
of a poor man and experience life as he does. You think that you can put this
costume on and off at will. But it might happen that you cannot take it off.”<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:14.0pt;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:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;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:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;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:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;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:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;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:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;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:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;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:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;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:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;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:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Assistant to the Designer:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Yulia Gray<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;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:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Sound Designer:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>David Obney<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;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:14.0pt;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:14.0pt;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:14.0pt;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:14.0pt;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:14.0pt;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:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana">Info/Reservations: 330-867-3299/Website: <a href="http://www.nwplab.com">www.nwplab.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:14.0pt;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>
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