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color=#222222>CPT’s ‘Feefer Rising’ is a fierce piece of
storytelling</FONT></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Bob Abelman</FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Cleveland Jewish News, The News Herald,
The Morning Journal</FONT></FONT></SPAN></I><SPAN
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Theatre Critics</FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT color=#222222><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">The end of the year is a melancholic time of reflection,
when many of us look back at our hours upon the earth, evaluate our journey’s
trajectory, and make adjustments accordingly.</FONT><SPAN
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">It is little wonder that, in December, our stages are
filled with fictional characters doing the same, whether it’s Scrooge’s
eleventh-hour revelation to “</FONT></FONT></SPAN><FONT
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color=#181818>live in the Past, the Present, and the Future” in Great Lakes
Theater’s </FONT></SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" color=#222222>“A Christmas Carol” or Peter Pan’s
realization that “life is an awfully big adventure” in Dobama’s “Peter and the
Starcatcher.” </FONT></SPAN></FONT></P>
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color=#222222>So it is not surprising that the story in Faye Hargate’s “Feefer
Rising,” currently on stage at Cleveland Public Theatre, has a similar trope of
self-reflection:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>a young girl’s
discovery of identity and sexuality on her arduous journey toward womanhood.
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color=#222222>What is surprising about this World Premiere production of
Hargate’s semi-autobiographical one-woman play, which is co-created and directed
by Raymond Bobgan, is the storytelling.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>For it is daring, disorienting, and so very far from
melancholic.</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">For more of this review, go to </FONT></SPAN><FONT
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