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face="Times New Roman">‘Tall Skinny Cruel Cruel Boys’ an intriguing but
indecisive psychodrama</FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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align=center><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Bob Abelman</FONT></SPAN></P>
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align=center><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT face="Times New Roman">Cleveland Jewish
News, The News Herald, The Morning Journal</FONT></SPAN></I><SPAN
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align=center><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Member, International Association of Theatre
Critics</FONT></SPAN></P>
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face="Times New Roman">Franklin Delano Roosevelt famously said,</FONT>
<STRONG>“</STRONG><FONT color=#222222 face="Times New Roman">The only thing we
have to fear is fear itself.</FONT></SPAN><STRONG><SPAN style="COLOR: ">”
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style="COLOR: "><FONT face="Times New Roman">Not according to</FONT>
</SPAN><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN class=apple-converted-space><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ">a recent </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'><FONT
color=#282828>Time magazine survey, which reported that most people also fear
cyber-terrorism, bio-warfare, and public speaking.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Topping the list is the fear of
clowns.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
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<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="COLOR: "><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Tapping this particular trigger of anxiety and cold
sweats is Cleveland native Caroline V. McGraw’s psychodrama “Tall Skinny Cruel
Cruel Boys,” performed by Theater Ninjas at Near West Lofts in Gordon
Square.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="COLOR: "><FONT
face="Times New Roman">The clown in question is a damaged and disturbed young
woman named Brandy (a hauntingly detached and lissome Rachel Lee Kolis), who
performs at children’s parties when not mindlessly succumbing to their Dads’
sexual advances (Val Kozlenko) in the bathrooms and seducing high school boys
(Bryon Tobin) in her bedroom. <SPAN
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face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ">For more of this
review, go to </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT
color=#0563c1>www.clevelandjewishnews.com/columnists/</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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