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face=Georgia>Cleveland Public Theatre carves out powerful ‘Lines in the Dust’
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face=Georgia>Bob Abelman</FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: "></SPAN></P>
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face=Georgia>Cleveland Jewish News, The News Herald, The Morning
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face=Georgia>Member, International Association of Theatre
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face=Georgia><FONT color=#181818>“The people came out of their houses and
smelled the hot stinging air and covered their noses from it….<SPAN
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style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The men were silent and they did not move
often. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And the women came out of
the houses to stand beside their men – to feel whether this time the men would
break…. The children peeked at the faces of the men and women, and then drew
careful lines in the dust with their toes….<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then they asked, Whta'll we do?”
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color=#181818>This excerpt from John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath” lays bare
the quiet desperation of </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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color=#252525>poor families driven from their homes by drought, dust and the
economic hardship of the 1930s.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And
it shows us the things despondent people will do to survive with
dignity.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></P>
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face=Georgia><FONT color=#252525>“In the name of the greatest people that have
ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before
the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow,
segregation forever.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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color=#252525>This </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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color=#181818>excerpt</FONT></SPAN><FONT color=#252525><SPAN
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comes from George Wallace’s Inaugural Address, </SPAN><SPAN
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in 1963 following his election as Governor.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And it shows us the things defensive
people will do to keep others from surviving with
dignity.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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color=#333333>Crossing a dividing line in the dust that separates a
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color=#252525>better life from those who desire it is a high risk endeavor,
regardless of whether it is drawn in the d</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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color=#333333>ead corn fields of Depression-era </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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the cold concrete portico of the <SPAN>Civil Rights-era Alabama State Capitol
building or – as demonstrated in </SPAN><SPAN><FONT color=#333333>Nikkole
Salter's 2014 play – in </FONT>the war zone classrooms of contemporary Newark,
New Jersey. </SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P>
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