<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(18, 18, 18); line-height: 20px; ">Christine Howey, longtime theater critic (</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(18, 18, 18); line-height: 20px; "><i>Cleveland Scene, The Plain Dealer, Rave and Pan</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(18, 18, 18); line-height: 20px; ">) and former actor and director, will perform a one-person show that she wrote, "Like a Doberman on a Quarter Pounder," during the opening weekend of Big Box at Cleveland Public Theatre, Jan. 17-19. Her one-hour piece, directed by Scott Plate, consists of poems, monologues and dialogues touching on the human condition. </span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(18, 18, 18); line-height: 20px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><br></font></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(18, 18, 18); line-height: 20px; ">Join Howey as she wonders what Beowulf had for breakfast, how it feels to be in forbidden love and the challenges of immortality. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(18, 18, 18); line-height: 20px; ">However, social commentary turns to the personal when Howey shares her journey from Richard to Christine. Beginning in 1950 as a boy wanting to be a girl and concluding in adulthood, the piece explores the pain, confusion and joy of seeking a gender that does not match one's body.</span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(18, 18, 18); line-height: 20px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><br></font></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(18, 18, 18); line-height: 20px; ">Howey's work will appear on a double-bill with "Free Radical and the Late Night Sketchbook Part 2: The Wedding," conceived and directed by Pandora Robertson. This show asks, "</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(18, 18, 18); line-height: 20px; ">Are we remembered by what we confess or by the fanciful narratives we create?" And it </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(18, 18, 18); line-height: 20px; ">explores</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(18, 18, 18); line-height: 20px; "> the boundary between what we think is the truth and what we want the truth to be.</span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(18, 18, 18); line-height: 20px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><br></font></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(18, 18, 18); line-height: 20px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">For more information:</font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: georgia, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "> <a href="http://www.cptonline.org/big-box-13-week-1.php">http://www.cptonline.org/big-box-13-week-1.php</a></span></font></div></div></blockquote><div><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 10pt; "><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: blue; ">Cleveland Public Theatre’s Big Box Series</span></strong><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; "><br></span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: black; ">January 17 – March 9, 2013<br>James Levin Theatre<br><br></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: black; ">Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:00pm</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: black; ">Tickets: General Admission $15 | Students and Seniors $13 | $10 Thursdays</span><o:p></o:p></p><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; "><a href="http://www.cptonline.org/theater-show.php?id=167" target="_blank" title="Purchase tickets" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">Click here to purchase tickets</a> or call the box office 216-631-2727 x501</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div></div></div></body></html>