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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#00B050">Cleveland State University Department of Theatre & Dance Presents
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#00B050">“</span></b><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">LYSISTRATA</span></b><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#00B050">”
February 27 – March 9 at the Allen Theatre Second Stage<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">CLEVELAND, OH</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color:black;background:white"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">(<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Feb.
14, 2014</span></em>) – Cleveland State University’s Department of Theatre and Dance</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";background:white">, a Resident Company of PlayhouseSquare,
<span style="color:black">continues its second full season in the Allen Theatre complex with the production of ancient Greek political comedy
</span><b><span style="color:#00B050">“Lysistrata”</span></b><span style="color:#00B050">
</span><span style="color:black">from Feb. 27 through March 9 at the Allen Theatre Second Stage.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">Written by Aristophanes and directed by CSU Professor Allan Byrne, Lysistrata is an Athenian woman who is tired of war and the treatment of women in Athens. In
an act to change her situation, she meets with the women of Greece to hatch a plan to end the Peloponnesian war. What is her brilliant tactic? Lysistrata wants them all to refuse sex with their husbands until a treaty for peace has been signed.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">Combining startlingly relevant topics with over the top sexual buffoonery, “Lysistrata” is a plea for peace wrapped in comic layers of the wiles and the equality
of womanhood.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">CAST:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">Featuring Emma Clark (Lysistrata); Leah Kraynak (Calonice); Natalie Phillips (Myrrhine); Naomi King (Lampito); Dominque Coppella (Reconciliation[Peace]/Woman);
Nick Chokan</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> (<span style="color:black;background:white">Rod [Cinesias]); Ben Merold (Magistrate); Ryan Tobbe (Spartan Ambassador); Jacob Boyle (Athenian Ambassador); Adam Campbell (Spartan Herald); Katie
Huskey (Women’s Chorus Leader), Nadia Davis, Maurisha Dean, Kristen Kleemann-Whitney and Caleb Boquist (Men’s Chorus Leader), Will Crosby</span><span style="color:#1F497D;background:white">,</span><span style="color:black;background:white"> Richie Gagen and
Joe Virgo.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">TIMES/TICKETS:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">Regular shows run Thursdays through Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., and Sundays at 2:00 p.m. Tickets can be purchased for Theatre and Dance productions by calling the
PlayhouseSquare Ticket Office at 216-241-6000, visiting online at </span><a href="http://www.playhousesquare.org"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";background:white">www.playhousesquare.org</span></a><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">,
or buying in person at the State Theatre Ticket Office, located at 1519 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44115.</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black;background:white;font-weight:normal">- For tickets, visit PlayhouseSquare online at
</span></strong><a href="http://www.playhousesquare.org"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";background:white">www.playhousesquare.org</span></a><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black;background:white;font-weight:normal">
or call: 216.241.6000.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black;background:white;font-weight:normal">- For more information on the Cleveland State University Department of Theatre and Dance, visit
</span></strong><a href="http://www.csuohio.edu/theatre"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";background:white">www.csuohio.edu/theatre</span></a><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black;background:white;font-weight:normal">.
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