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face=Arial><FONT color=#111111>Dobama turns farce-filled ‘Or,’ into something
more <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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face=Arial>Bob Abelman</FONT></SPAN></P>
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align=center><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
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face=Arial>Cleveland Jewish News, The News Herald, The Morning
Journal</FONT></SPAN></I><SPAN
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face=Arial>Member, International Association of Theatre
Critics</FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT face=Arial>For a play whose title is so ambiguous,
its plot points couldn’t be more ambitious.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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face=Arial><SPAN class=fsl><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT
color=#303030>In Liz Duffy Adams’ “Or,” which </FONT></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT color=#111111>premiered Off-Broadway in
2009 and </FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=fsl><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT color=#303030>opened last Friday at Dobama
Theatre, it’s the 17<SUP>th</SUP> century and we are introduced to Aphra Behn –
poet, spy, and the first professional female playwright in London.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat; BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll; BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0% 0%; COLOR: ">Recently
sprung from debtors’ prison, Aphra is desperate to finish her play by morning
despite constant interruptions from her new lover, the actress Nell Gwynne, her
benefactor and would-be lover, King Charles II, and her ex-lover, the
double-agent William Scot.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: ; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat; BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll; BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0% 0%; COLOR: "><FONT
face=Arial>Can Aphra save Charles’ life, win William a pardon, woo Nell, and
launch her career, all in one night? </FONT></SPAN></P>
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face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </P>
<P
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face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat; BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll; BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0% 0%; COLOR: ">Actually,
the bigger question regarding this play is can director Shannon Sindelar find
the right rhythm for a 90-minute, one-act play that, as is noted in the
prologue, “</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT
color=#222222>ricochets between a dense array of opposites.”
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face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT color=#222222>“Or,” is at
</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat; BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll; BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0% 0%; COLOR: ">once
historically-based (</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat; BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll; BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0% 0%; COLOR: "><FONT
color=#252525>Behn wrote </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat; BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll; BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0% 0%; COLOR: "><FONT
color=#444444>tragicomedies in the late-1600s, as well as light comedies and
farces) </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat; BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll; BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0% 0%; COLOR: ">and
widely fictitious.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It has elements
of a bedroom farce and a Restoration comedy, presents </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT color=#111111>dialogue in heightened blank
verse, </FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT
color=#222222>iambic pentameter</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat; BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll; BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0% 0%; COLOR: ">
</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT color=#111111>as well as
rhyming couplets</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat; BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll; BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0% 0%; COLOR: ">,
and is set in the 1660s while exploring issues of feminism, sexual freedom and
sexual preference best suited for the 1960s. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P>
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face=Arial>Sindelar finds that rhythm.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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the rest of this review, go to </SPAN><SPAN
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