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Vcelka Players</span></i></b><b><i><span style='color: rgb(79, 129, 189); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent1;'><br>
</span></i></b><b><i><span style='color: rgb(79, 129, 189); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent1;'>present a comedy<br>
</span></i></b><b><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Bernard MT Condensed","serif"; font-size: 48pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text2;'>The
Good Captain Svejk</span></b></div><div align="center" style='margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center; color: rgb(79, 129, 189); font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt; background-color: transparent;'><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><b><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;'>Based on Jaroslav Hašek's world-famous satirical farce</span></b></div><div align="center" style='margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center; color: rgb(79, 129, 189); font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt; background-color: transparent;'><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Bernard MT Condensed","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;'>The Good Soldier Švejk</span><b><i><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text2;'><br>
</span></i></b><b><i><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text2;'>It's 1919 and the good Soldier Svejk
is coming to America<br>
to advise the United States on military tactics</span></i></b></div><div align="center" style='margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center; color: rgb(79, 129, 189); font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt; background-color: transparent;'><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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September 27, 2014 - 7 pm</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Bernard MT Condensed","serif"; font-size: 22.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text2;'><br>
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- 3 pm</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Bernard MT Condensed","serif"; font-size: 22.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text2;'><br>
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National Hall Ballroom</span></i></b></div><div align="center" style='margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.5pt; font-weight: bold; background-color: transparent;'><b><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;'></span></b><b><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text2;'><em>4939
Broadway Avenue, Cleveland OH</em></span></b><b><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text2;'><br><em>
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</font><span style='color: rgb(23, 54, 93); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Bernard MT Condensed","serif"; font-size: 22.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themeshade: 191; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;'>Reservations</span><span style='color: rgb(23, 54, 93); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Bernard MT Condensed","serif"; font-size: 22.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themeshade: 191; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;'><br>
</span><span style='color: rgb(23, 54, 93); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Bernard MT Condensed","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themeshade: 191; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;'><font size="3">216-642-9012</font></span></div><span style='color: white; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Bernard MT Condensed","serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;'><div align="center" style='margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center; color: rgb(79, 129, 189); font-family: "Georgia","serif"; background-color: transparent;'><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); line-height: 150%; font-family:
"Georgia","serif"; mso-themecolor: text2;'><font size="3">Sokol Greater Cleveland offers an iconic
play the weekend of September 27 and 28 to coincide with their monthly ethnic Sunday
dinner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The play, titled “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Good Captain Svejk</i>,” is an
adaptation of <i>The Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Švejk During the
World War</i>,” written by the famous Czech author and anarchist, Jaroslav
Hasek.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This novel is<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the most recognized and translated Czech
fiction, and considered the greatest literary work to come out of the First
World War.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The adapted comedy is written
and directed by a local Czech, Joseph Bachna, and performed, in English, by the
Sokol Czech Cultural Center’s Vcelka Players.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Curtain time for the Saturday evening performance is 7 pm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Sunday matinee performance is at 3 pm,
following a traditional Czech dinner of pork, dumplings and sauerkraut.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both the dinner and the play are held in the
historic Bohemian National Hall, 4939 <font>Broadway Avenue in Cleveland. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Attend both or either one.</font></font></span></div><div align="center" style='margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center; color: rgb(23, 54, 93); font-family: "Bernard MT Condensed","serif"; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;'><font><font size="3"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman">
</font><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-themecolor: text2;'><font>“<font face="bookman old style, new york, times, serif">The
Good Soldier Svejk,” the abbreviated title of the original work, is said to be
one of the greatest satirical novels of the 20</font></font><font><font face="bookman old style, new york, times, serif"><font><sup><font>th</font></sup><font> century.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font> </font></span><font>The novel chronicles the irreverent </font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font> </font></span><font>misadventures of Josef Svejk, the ‘everyman’</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font> </font></span><font>who survives </font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font> </font></span><font>the hypocrisies of his day by being the wisest</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font> </font></span><font>fool. </font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font> </font></span><font>While
Hasek’s novel is set in Austria-Hungary at the time of WW I, Bachna’s play
takes place after the war when the bumbling Good Soldier, only to be rid of
him, is promoted to Captain and sent to America as a military adviser. </font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font> </font></span><font>Bachna’s storyline includes the absurdly comic
situations of the Good Soldier while weaving a bit of history into the plot. </font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font> </font></span><font>It’s unlikely you’d find a Czech who
doesn’t</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font> </font></span><font>know the comic round-faced,
beer-loving</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font> </font></span><font>Svejk character.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font> </font></span><font>He has become </font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font> </font></span><font>a folklore icon inspiring</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font> </font></span><font>movies, an opera, Svejk-styled </font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font> </font></span><font>items</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font>
</font></span><font>and even pubs around the world. </font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font> </font></span><font>If you haven’t been introduced to Svejk, now
is your opportunity.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font> </font></span><font>Door admission for
the play is $10 but advance reservations are $8 </font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font> </font></span><font>and can be made by phoning 216-642-9012.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font> </font></span><font>Bachna is so sure you will enjoy his
adaptation, a money-back guarantee is offered if you leave before the end of
intermission.</font></font></font></font></span></font></font></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: bookman old style, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><font><font face="Bookman Old Style" size="3"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-themecolor: text2;'><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;'>Bohemian
National Hall is located at 4939 Broadway Avenue in Cleveland, off the Pershing
exit of I-77 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">North.</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Hall is handicapped accessible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Parking is free.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Further information about Sokol Greater
Cleveland, the Czech Cultural Center events and future dinners can be found at
the organization’s website:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;'><a href="http://www.sokolgreatercleveland.org/"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text2;'>http://www.sokolgreatercleveland.org</span></a></span></span></font></font></div><div align="center" style='margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; background-color:
transparent;'><font face="bookman old style, new york, times, serif"><font><font face="Bookman Old Style" size="3"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-themecolor: text2;'><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;'>Or for information about the play and the Vcelka Drama group go to </span></span></font></font><font><font face="Bookman Old Style" size="3"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-themecolor: text2;'><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;
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