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games take the stage at Cleveland Public Theatre<SPAN
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Bob
Abelman<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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class=MsoNormal align=center><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Cleveland Jewish
News<o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Member, International
Association of Theatre Critics <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">This review will
appear in the <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Cleveland Jewish News
</I>on 4/18/14<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Do
not turn off your cell phone.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Photography is permitted.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Talking and unwrapping candy during the performance is highly
encouraged.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></STRONG></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></STRONG></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">For
the next few weeks, pre-recorded pre-show reminders of proper theater conduct
have no place in the Cleveland Public Theatre’s performance space, for proper
theater conduct is turned on its ear in “A Killing Game.”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></STRONG></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></STRONG></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Also
turned on its ear is the distinction between performed and participatory theater
and the separation of actors and audience.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></STRONG></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></STRONG></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">“A
Killing Game” is a theatrical party game – a pseudo-staged, somewhat improvised
murder mystery orchestrated by a talented and vested ensemble of
character-specific performers who invite the audience to play
along.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></STRONG></P>
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class=MsoNormal><STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></STRONG></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">It
is the board game Cranium without the board and Charades without the charade,
where audience members participate in several rounds of role-playing and
guess-making before being divided into competing color-coordinated teams for a
final round of fun and games.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></STRONG></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></STRONG></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">During
my evening of engagement, the game was played by a handful of hesitant
contestants, a smattering of extraverts picking up the slack, some
inner-children set free and running wild, and a few uninhibited inebriants
keeping things interesting. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For
immersive theater like this, the composition of the crowd has as much to do with
the tone and temperament of the evening’s festivities as the festivities
themselves. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></STRONG></P>
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class=MsoNormal><STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></STRONG></P>
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class=MsoNormal><STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Participants
are encouraged to post their experiences on facebook, tweet or text messages to
each other and members of the production staff, and access information being
sent by a social media conductor.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>All this is simultaneously engaging and distracting, and not nearly as
much a part of the game-playing as advertised.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></STRONG></P>
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class=MsoNormal><STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></STRONG></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"
class=MsoNormal><STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">The
“show,” d</SPAN></STRONG><STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">irected
by Colin K. Bills, was<SPAN style="COLOR: black"> created by dog and pony dc –
</SPAN></SPAN></STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">a
Washington DC-based devised theatre company – and first performed in 2012.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The current troupe of players consists
of <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Max </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Freedman
(<STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Mr.
Blue</SPAN></STRONG>), Yasmin Tuazon (<STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Miss
Pink</SPAN></STRONG>), Wyckham Avery (<STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Miss
Green</SPAN></STRONG>), Karen Lange (<STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Miss
Orange</SPAN></STRONG>), company co-founder Rachel Grossman (<STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Miss
Purple</SPAN></STRONG>), Jon Reynolds (<STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Mr.
Chrome</SPAN></STRONG>) and Adelaide Waldrop (<STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Our
Friend in Black</SPAN></STRONG>).<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>All are immediately appealing and likable people who encourage
participation but do not demand it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">For 85 minutes
without intermission, they keep things moving at breakneck speed and are
efficient at clandestinely controlling the variability that can surface when the
paying public is given permission to play.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Random acts of art are as likely to rise as moments of inanity.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"
class=MsoNormal><STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">In
short, “A Killing Game” is good fun for those willing to have it and less
amusing for those who come just to watch.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></STRONG></P>
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class=MsoNormal><STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></STRONG></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">WHAT:<SPAN
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</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">“A
Killing Game</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">”<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">WHERE:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Cleveland Public
Theatre, </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">6415 Detroit Avenue,
Gordon Square <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">WHEN:<SPAN
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</SPAN>Through Saturday, April 26<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: CS"
lang=CS>$12 – $28.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Call
216-631-2727 x501, or visit </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><A href=""><FONT
color=#0000ff>www.cptonline.org</FONT></A>.<SPAN style="COLOR: black">
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