<div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Playwrights Local 4181 proudly concludes its world premiere of Les Hunter’s contemporary drama </span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">To the Orchard</span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. Directed by Dale Heinen, the play runs for a final weekend,</span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:14.6667px;line-height:1.38;white-space:pre-wrap"> June 10 through 12, at Dobama Theatre in Cleveland Heights. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In </span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">To the Orchard</span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, college student Rachel Bergman reveals her sexual identity to her Orthodox Jewish father, who also is struggling with his own hidden past. In coming to terms with each other--and themselves--the pair must reconcile the conflicting pulls of tradition and individual desire. The play takes place in Brooklyn in the recent past, but incorporates dreamlike visits to turn-of-the-century England and the lost Jewish Eastern Europe. The spirits of Robert Plant and Virginia Woolf add a touch of magic realism to this intimate work about making mistakes, coming clean, and the power of history and family.</span></p><div><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The cast of </span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">To the Orchard</span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> features Robert Branch, Kelsey Angel Baehrens, Andrea Belser, and Michael Regnier. For more information, including other collaborators, please visit </span><a href="http://playwrightslocal.org/to-the-orchard/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://playwrightslocal.org/to-the-orchard/</span></a><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;line-height:1.38;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Read Bob Abelman's review in the <i>Cleveland Jewish News: <a href="http://the%20performances%20soar%20when%20Hunter%E2%80%99s%20words%20seem%20to%20fly%20from%20the%20page%20and%20are%20as%20poetic%20as%20they%20are%20poignant,%20which%20happens%20often./">"</a></i></span><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;line-height:20.24px;white-space:pre-wrap"><i><a href="http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/columnists/engaging-to-the-orchard-pits-tradition-against-desire/article_ba765f9e-2690-11e6-8ad3-bb5b0c32dd80.html">the performances soar when Hunter’s words seem to fly from the page!"</a></i></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hear <a href="http://www.ideastream.org/programs/sound-of-applause/playwrights-local-4181-to-the-orchard">an interview with the playwright</a> on Sound of Applause! </span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Tickets are $15 for adults, $12 for seniors, and $10 for students. To buy online, see </span><a href="http://playwrightslocal.org/to-the-orchard-tickets/" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://playwrightslocal.org/to-the-orchard-tickets/</span></a><span style="font-size:14.6667p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