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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 16px; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN id=lw_1376760042_0 class=yshortcuts>On Tuesday, August 20th @ 7pm</SPAN>, the Beachwood Branch of the <SPAN id=lw_1376760042_1 class=yshortcuts>Cuyahoga County Library, 25501 Shaker Blvd. </SPAN> will be holding a performance of the solo show "Each at his Forge," written and performed by Keith Foster. Following the performance, there will be a talkback. This event is a free workshop, and the audience's responses both during the show and the talkback will help to inform the evolution of the piece.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 16px; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-SIZE: 13px">The piece explores the economic difficulties facing Detroit, as one actor portrays nine different characters, testing the balance between a city's money and a city's soul.</SPAN></DIV><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 16px; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-SIZE: 13px">
<DIV><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 16px; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-SIZE: 13px"><BR></SPAN></DIV>Plot Synopsis: Successful painter Abe Idelson received a commission from the Detroit Insitute of the Arts for a series of portraits focusing on the the Emergency Manager's option t</SPAN><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 16px; DISPLAY: inline; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-SIZE: 13px" class=yiv1209324546>o help decrease the city's debt. The subjects of his paintings reveal a spectrum of opinions on the debate raging between city, citizen and museum. With each portrait and story, Abe realizes his failure to achieve his own ideas and how he is complicit in the degradation of the Public Trust.</SPAN><BR>
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<DIV>The piece has received two prior workshops at earlier stages of development, both in Marietta, OH. This will be the first advertised public performance of the piece, and the first performance in NE Ohio. It will be fully produced in the spring of 2014 at Marietta College.</DIV>
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<DIV>If you are planning on coming, please take the time to register at <A style="LINE-HEIGHT: 16px; COLOR: rgb(59,89,152); FONT-SIZE: 13px; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.cuyahogalibrary.org/beachwoodbranch.aspx" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://<SPAN style="DISPLAY: inline-block" class=yiv1209324546></SPAN>www.cuyahogalibrary.org</A><FONT color=#454545>/</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>or call <SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 16px; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-SIZE: 13px">216-831-6868.</SPAN></DIV></DIV></DIV><BR></DIV>
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