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<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri>CLEVELAND, OH.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Cesear’s Forum’s regional premiere production of Edward Albee’s OCCUPANT </FONT></FONT></div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri>concludes this weekend with the final performance on October 25<SUP>th</SUP>.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">The play, a tribute to Louise </SPAN></FONT></FONT></div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri><SPAN style="COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Nevelson, the renowned American sculptor, who returns from the dead for a final Q&A interview, </SPAN></FONT></FONT></div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri><SPAN style="COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">features Julia Kolibab and George Roth. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In his New York Times Review of the Signature Theatre </SPAN></FONT></FONT></div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri><SPAN style="COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">production, Ben Brantley wrote; “…OCCUPANT</SPAN> bows its head in awe and gratitude before the </FONT></FONT></div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri>mysterious force of will that allows great artists to be.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This necessarily lonely process of self-fulfillment </FONT></FONT></div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri>is what gives OCCUPANT an emotional heft beyond that of a mere biographical sketch.” <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Rave & Pan’s </FONT></FONT></div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri>Christine Howey writes, “the best thing about this production is the acting.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Under the precise direction </FONT></FONT></div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri>of Greg Cesear, the two actors spin a sublimely hypnotic world.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></div>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri>Producing intermittently, the limited engagement production opened September 19<SUP>th</SUP> at Kennedy’s </FONT></FONT></div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri>Down Under, PlayhouseSquare, 1501 Euclid Avenue (below the Ohio Theatre). <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Roy Berko noted, </FONT></FONT></div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri>“Edward Albee’s OCCUPANT is one of those special plays…a well written, thinking person’s play, which </FONT></FONT></div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri>gets a fine staging and interpretation.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The OCCUPANT set is designed by Laura Carlson Tarantowski<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN>with lighting by Andrew Kaletta, costumes by Aimee Kluiber.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></div>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri>Andrea Simakis, in her Plain Dealer review, puts it this way; “This is a play about ideas, something </FONT></FONT></div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri>director Greg Cesear and his actors know. Its drama lies not in any overt action (there is none) but in the </FONT></FONT></div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri>push-pull between two people – or one person and one spirit, in this case – who want opposite things.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN>Kolibab, who bears a close enough resemblance to Nevelson to make it fun, and Roth suck the marrow </FONT></FONT></div>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri>doing it.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></div>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in auto" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3>Edward Albee’s OCCUPANT.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>through October 25<SUP>th</SUP>, <FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><FONT size=2><SPAN style="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">Friday </SPAN>and</FONT></FONT> Saturday at 8 pm, <SPAN style="COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Call 216-241-6000 </SPAN></FONT></div>
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