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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><p style="padding-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(223, 226, 242); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Project1voice (Cleveland) </b></span></p><p style="padding-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(223, 226, 242); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>presents ~</b></span></p><p style="padding-bottom: 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(223, 226, 242); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><b>for colored girls who haveconsidered suicide /</b></em></span></span></p><p style="padding-bottom: 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(223, 226, 242); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><b>when the rainbow is enuf</b></em></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center; padding-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(223, 226, 242);"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">by Ntozake Shange</span> </b></span></p><p style="padding-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(223, 226, 242); text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>A Benefit National Staged Reading</b></span></span></span></p><p style="padding-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(223, 226, 242); text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.920000076293945px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rainey Institute</span><br style="color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.920000076293945px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.920000076293945px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">1705 East 55th St</span><br style="color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.920000076293945px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.920000076293945px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Cleveland, Ohio 44105</span><br style="color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.920000076293945px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.920000076293945px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Monday, June 16th, 2014 - 7:30 pm</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center; padding-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(223, 226, 242);"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><b>Directed by Dale Ricardo Shields</b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center; padding-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(223, 226, 242);"><b><br></b></p><p style="text-align: center; padding-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(223, 226, 242);"><b>Featuring</b></p><p style="padding-bottom: 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(223, 226, 242); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Mariama Whyte * Kimberly Brown * Nina Domnique Glover </b></span></p><p style="padding-bottom: 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(223, 226, 242); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Maha McCain * Pia Long</b></span></p><p style="padding-bottom: 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; 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Initially staged in California, it has been performed Off-Broadway and on Broadway, and adapted as a book, a television film, and a theatrical film. The 1976 Broadway production was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play.</span></b></span></p><p style="padding-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(223, 226, 242); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br></b></span></p><p style="padding-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(223, 226, 242); text-align: center;"><b><font color="#666666" face="times new roman, times" size="3">This groundbreaking "choreopoem" modern day classic was first produced in New York City in 1975 with Henry Street Settlement and Joseph Papp Public Theatre and then made its Broadway debut in 1976. It is a spellbinding collection of vivid prose and free verse narrative about and performed by Black women. Twenty poems capturing the brutal, tender and dramatic lives of contemporary Black women, For Colored Girls... offers a </font><font color="#666666" face="times new roman, times">trans-formative</font><font color="#666666" face="times new roman, times" size="3">, riveting evening of provocative dance, music and poetry.</font></b></p><p style="padding-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(223, 226, 242); text-align: center;"><b> </b></p><p style="text-align: center; padding-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(223, 226, 242);"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>"A triumphant event, filled with humor. Pure theatre."- New York Daily News</b></span></p><p style="padding-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(223, 226, 242); text-align: center;"><b> </b></p><p style="text-align: center; padding-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(223, 226, 242);"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>" A poignant, gripping, angry and beautiful work."- Time</b></span></p><p style="padding-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(223, 226, 242);"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br></b></span></p><p style="padding-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(223, 226, 242);"><b><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 12pt;">Project1voice</span><font color="#666666" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3">, a national not-for-profit performing arts organization created in 2010 advocating on issues that directly affect Black theatre. We are dedicated to the preservation of the legacy and tradition of the art and artist of Black theatre. We bring together a diverse group of talented (AEA) professional and semi-professional (community) </font><font color="#666666" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">artist</font><font color="#666666" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3">. We are celebrating and educating about Black Theatre by presenting exceptional full staged readings and talk-back sessions. Past readings have presented the work of playwrights Alice Childress (</font><em style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: medium;">Trouble in Mind</em><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">), James Baldwin (</span><em style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: medium;">The Amen Corner</em><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">) and Charles Fuller (</span><em style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: medium;">A Soldier's Play</em><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">).</span></b></p> </div></body>
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