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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";text-transform:uppercase">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">January 19, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h1 style="margin-right:0in"><b><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Great Lakes Theater Presents World Premiere Adaptation of<o:p></o:p></span></b></h1>
<h1 style="margin-right:0in"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";letter-spacing:-1.0pt">AGATHA CHRISTIE’S</span></b><b><span style="font-size:25.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";letter-spacing:-1.0pt"><br>
THE SECRET ADVERSARY<o:p></o:p></span></b></h1>
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<h1 style="margin-right:0in"><b><i><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The FREE touring production will visit twenty-one venues across northeast Ohio.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></h1>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Great Lakes Theater (GLT) will</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">
<b>launch the world premiere of <i>THE SECRET ADVERSARY</i>, a free touring production
</b>scheduled to visit twenty-one neighborhood venues throughout<b> </b>northeast Ohio, to kick off the company’s 2016 series of
<i>Surround</i><b> </b>outreach<b> </b>programming<b>. </b>The one-act play is <b>
an adaptation of Agatha Christie’s novel <i>The Secret Adversary</i>, written by David Hansen, GLT Education Outreach Associate</b> and directed by
<b>GLT Director of Educational Programming Lisa Ortenzi, </b>and features <b>a touring company of five actors</b>. The<b>
</b>tour commences on <b>February 16<sup>th</sup>, continues through March 10<sup>th</sup>
</b>and is<b> </b>designed to support Great Lakes Theater’s upcoming mainstage production of Agatha Christie’s
<i>And Then There Were None </i>at the Hanna Theatre, Playhouse Square which opens in February.
<b>All performances of the touring production are free and open to the public</b>, with the exception of performances at area schools, which are private.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Great Lakes Theater and the company’s 2016 series of
<i>Surround</i> programming, which includes <i>The Secret Adversary, </i>is supported by
<b>the residents of Cuyahoga County through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture,
</b>the <b>GAR Foundation </b>and the <b>Nord Family Foundation</b>. Generous season support is also provided by
<b>The Cleveland Foundation</b> and the <b>Ohio Arts Council</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">“What an amazing opportunity we have here at Great Lakes Theater to bring live, free professional theater into the community in the form of our educational outreach tours</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">,”
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">said Lisa Ortenzi, GLT Director of Educational Programming about the company’s annual tour. “For over 25 years, our touring productions have created meaningful dialogues with audiences at high
schools, assisted living facilities, local community theaters and libraries across northeast Ohio. We look forward to engaging audiences in the theatrical process again this year. We are grateful to the many generous supporters who make this work possible
and enable us to fulfill our mission while reaching out to the community.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Who is the “secret adversary”?
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">For her second novel, Agatha Christie created the youthful, jazz-era characters, Thomas Beresford and Prudence “Tuppence” Crowley. Down on their luck,
<b><i>Tommy and Tuppence</i></b> decide to become adventurers for hire and swiftly find themselves in an international plot to bring down the British government. Time is not on their side as they work to uncover the mysterious “Mister Brown.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The five-actor touring company features Cleveland actors Ray Caspio, Deborah Cluts, James Rankin, Brittni Shambaugh, and Devon Turchan.</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">
</span><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Lisa Ortenzi</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">, Great Lakes Theater’s Director of Educational Programming,
<b>directs</b> the production. The design trio of <b>Terry Martin</b> (scenic design),
<b>Esther Haberlen</b> (costume design) and <b>Richard Ingraham</b> (sound design)<b>
</b>complete the play’s creative team. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;text-transform:uppercase">THE SECRET ADVERSARY</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> is an eighty-minute program that includes an introduction and</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">
post-performance discussion. </span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Times and dates are subject to change. Call individual venues for more information.
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<b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;text-transform:uppercase">THE SECRET ADVERSARY</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> is part of a series of community outreach programs that surrounds Great
Lakes Theater’s mainstage productions of Agatha Christie’s <i>And Then There Were None</i>
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">(Feb 26 – March 20, 2016)
<b>and William Shakespeare’s <i>Love’s Labour’s Lost </i></b>(April 8 – 24, 2016) at the
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Hanna Theatre, Playhouse Square. Great Lakes Theater’s spring
<i>Surround</i> offers multiple educational programs designed to connect the issues in the plays that Cleveland’s classic company produces to the issues in people’s own lives.
<b>All <i>Surround </i>events are free and open to the public. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">For more information and a complete list of tour venues, dates and times, visit
</span><a href="http://www.greatlakestheater.org/education/outreach-tour"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">http://www.greatlakestheater.org/education/outreach-tour</span></b></a><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue">
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">or contact Great Lakes Theater’s education department at
<b>(216) 453-4444.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";text-transform:uppercase">Media Contact:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Todd Krispinsky<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Director of Marketing and Strategic Advancement<o:p></o:p></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Great Lakes Theater<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1501 Euclid Avenue, Suite 300<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Cleveland, Ohio 44115<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(216) 453-4449 (Office)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(216) 409-3916 (Cell)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(216) 241-6315 (Fax)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.greatlakestheater.org/">www.greatlakestheater.org</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i>Cleveland’s Classic Company performing at the Hanna Theatre, Playhouse Square<o:p></o:p></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">ONSTAGE: Enjoy Agatha Christie’s murder mystery classic
</span><a href="http://www.greatlakestheater.org/tickets/shows/and-then-there-were-none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">AND THEN THERE WERE NONE</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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