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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Beck Center for the Arts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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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:red">‘night, Mother<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Written by Marsha Norman<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Directed by Scott Plate<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Starring Dorothy Silver & Laura Perrotta*<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">~ $10 PREVIEW NIGHT ~<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Thursday, March 20<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">8 p.m. / Studio Theater<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">‘night, Mother</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Preview Night admission is $10. Advance tickets go on
sale online at 12:01 a.m. Thursday, March 20 and at the Beck Center box office 10 a.m. Thursday. Tickets may be purchased at the door based on availability. General admission seating. Doors open approximately 15 minutes prior to curtain.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Preview Night tickets go on sale online at 12:01 a.m., March 20.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">To purchase tickets online with a credit card, click here:
</span><a href="http://sa1.seatadvisor.com/sabo/servlets/EventSearch?presenter=BECKCENTER"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue">http://sa1.seatadvisor.com/sabo/servlets/EventSearch?presenter=BECKCENTER</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">To purchase tickets from the Beck Center Box Office after 10:00 am, call: 216.521.2540 x10.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">ABOUT THE SHOW<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Nominated for four Tony Awards and winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Drama,
<i>‘night, Mother</i> is an eloquent, enthralling and ultimately shattering play that explores the final hours in the life of a woman who has decided that life is no longer worth living.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Directed by
<b>Scott Plate</b>, this play tells the story of Jessie, an epileptic woman in her 40s who systematically prepares for her own death – and the frantic and touching efforts of her mother, Thelma, to stop her. “With humor, wisdom and keen insight, ‘<i>night,
Mother</i> celebrates the glory of the commonplace,” remarks Plate. “Two seemingly ordinary women, mother and daughter, come to grips with the value of their own lives, and express what many of us have felt at one time or another: why am I here?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">‘night, Mother</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> marks the return of Cleveland’s grand
dame of theater <b>Dorothy Silver</b> as Thelma, and the award-winning <b>Laura Perrotta</b> as Jessie. Silver returns to Beck Center after her acclaimed performance in the regional premiere of Eric Coble’s
<i>The Velocity of Autumn</i>. Perrotta returns to Beck Center after being named “Best Actress in a Non-Musical” in 2012 by the Cleveland Critics Circle for her role as the cunning Hollywood agent Diane in
<i>The Little Dog Laughed. </i></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Perrotta appears courtesy of the Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), the union of actors and stage managers.</span><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Tickets for
<i>‘night, Mother </i>are $29 for adults, $26 for seniors (65 and older), and $12 for students (with valid ID). An additional $3 service fee per ticket is applied at the time of purchase. Preview Night on Thursday, March 20, is $10 with general admission seating.
Group discounts are available for parties of 13 or more. Purchase tickets online at
<a href="http://www.beckcenter.org/"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">beckcenter.org</span></a> or call Customer Service at 216.521.2540 x10. Beck Center is located at 17801 Detroit Avenue in Lakewood, just ten minutes west of downtown Cleveland.
Free onsite parking is available.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Beck Center’s production of
<i>‘night, Mother</i> is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York. Programming at Beck Center for the Arts is made possible through the generous support of the Ohio Arts Council and the generous<span style="color:black">
funding provided by the citizens of Cuyahoga County through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Celebrating its 80th anniversary, Beck Center for the Arts is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization that offers professional theater productions
on two stages, arts education programming for all ages and abilities, including Creative Arts Therapies for individuals with special needs, outreach education, and free gallery exhibits featuring local, regional, and international artists.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Cast of Characters
<i>(In Order of Appearance)</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Thelma Cates – Dorothy Silver<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jessie Cates – Laura Perrotta*<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">*Actor appears courtesy of the Actors' Equity Association (AEA), the union of actors and stage managers.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Production Staff<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Artistic Director - Scott Spence<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Director - Scott Plate<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Stage Manager - Curt Arnold<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Scenic Designer - Aaron Benson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Costume Designer - Tesia Dugan Benson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Sound Designer - Richard B. Ingraham<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Technical Director & Lighting Designer - Joseph Carmola<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Technical Assistant - Dan Folino<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Carpenter - Shawn Delaney<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Wardrobe Mistress - Deanna Cechowski<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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