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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial">For additional
information</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial">Neil Thackaberry</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial">Actors’ Summit Theater</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center"><b><i><span style="font-size:26pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(255,153,204)">HANDLE WITH CARE</span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial">Actors’ Summit, Akron’s
professional theater, announces the production of <i>HANDLE WITH CARE</i>, the new romantic comedy that just finished its New York premiere run
Off-Broadway. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial">The show will have a
preview performance on March 27 with the official opening on Friday night,
March 28. <i>HANDLE WITH CARE</i> is currently scheduled for a 12 performance run,
closing on April 13. Performances are
given Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights at 8:00 P.M. and Sundays at 2 PM,
and take place at Greystone Hall, in downtown Akron. The show is appropriate for all ages. A free dessert reception with the cast
follows the opening night performance on Friday, March 28.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial">The Play: </span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">HANDLE WITH CARE</span></i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"> was named </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">a</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"> Critics’ Pick by
The New York Times calling it “</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">A</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"> hilarious and heartwarming romantic
comedy”. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial;color:black">A young Israeli woman reluctantly travels with her Bubbie
(grandmother) to the United States. Bubbie seems to be on a quest but she won’t
tell anyone about it. On Christmas Eve,
a crisis arises when a package being sent back to Israel
goes missing. The normal challenge of
dealing with the shipping company driver is compounded by the fact that he is
trying to make himself understood (using rural southern English) to someone who
only speaks Hebrew. The delivery driver calls
on his only Jewish friend to translate for him and quickly learns that not all
Jews speak Hebrew. “</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial">But I thought you all
had to learn that stuff at like Sunday school before your Hare Krishna.” The Jewish young man says “I crammed like
five months of Hebrew school into one weekend -- when I was twelve. So unless she starts quoting my Haftorah,
we've got nothing to talk about.” Even
so the barriers to communication melt when he and the granddaughter develop a
romantic attachment.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial">The Language
Challenge</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial">“We’re very fortunate to have recruited a wonderful language coach, <span style="color:black">Oudi Singer,” said Constance Thackaberry,
director of the production. Mr. Singer
was born and raised in Israel. “<span class="">He is</span> passionate about teaching Hebrew
and currently teaches or has taught at Temple Beth Shalom in Hudson; Agnon in
Beachwood; the Lippman School in Akron; Beth-El Akron; and Kol Chadash, Solon.”</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial;color:black">“I am also lucky to have cast Natalie Kern,
an actress with both a terrific work ethic and a great ear for language”<span class=""> commented director
Constance Thackaberry.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial;color:black"><span class=""><br></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial">The Director</span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">Constance
Thackaberry is directing her 10th production for Actors’ Summit. At Actors’ Summit, she has directed the world
premiere of Eric Coble’s play <i>A Girl’s
Guide to </i>Coffee (the first play in the “Alexandra trilogy,” whose third
play is the current Broadway offering, <i>The
Velocity of Autumn</i>), <i>Motherhood Out
Loud</i>, <i>Becky’s New Car</i>, <i>A Christmas Carol</i>, <i>Last Train to Nibroc</i>, <i>Big
Boys</i>, <i>Nixon’s Nixon</i> and <i>Rounding Third</i>, restaged <i>Clarence Darrow for the Defense</i> and
assistant directed <i>Tremont</i>, <i>Macbeth</i>, and <i>Musical of Musicals, The Musical!</i>
Connie is an alum of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial">Tickets:</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial">Tickets for <i>HANDLE WITH CARE</i> are on sale now through
the box office at 330-374-7568 and online at <a href="http://www.actorssummit.org">www.actorssummit.org</a>. Preview tickets (March 27) are $20. Tickets for all other performances: $33 for
adults, $28 for seniors over 65; and $10 for all full time students under
30. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial">The Theater:</span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial">The theater is located
on the sixth floor of historic Greystone Hall in downtown Akron.
The facility features barrier free access, free parking, and full bar
service. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial">More information is
available at the Actors’ Summit website:
<a href="http://www.actorssummit.org">www.actorssummit.org</a>.</span></p>
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