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<div align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style='font-size:28.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Broadway;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>The Taming of the Shrew</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style='font-size:28.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Broadway;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'> opens on
August 20-21, 27-28 at 6:00 pm at</span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style='font-size:28.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Broadway;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>The Canal ways Center, Lock IV Park and St. Helena III</span></b></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Broadway;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Two
sisters - one a sweet innocent girl, while the other an obnoxious, demanding,
and unpleasing person.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The problem is
that the sweet, innocent girl is the youngest and her mother says that the only
way she can wed one of her many suitors is to get someone to marry her older
obnoxious sister first.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>That problem is
compounded when no one, and I mean no one, wants the honor of taking the older
sister’s hand in marriage.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The older
sister is also in no hurry to get married.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>The younger sister and the suitors can only lament.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>That is until one of the suitors remembers
that there is an obnoxious and demanding man who lives in the hinterlands.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The suitors summon this unlikely person to
come to town and woo the older sister, who is very determined to spurn his
advances.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Unfortunately for her, the
younger sister and their mother are very determined to get her married.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>They collaborate with the suitors to cause a
deception.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Thus, in a nutshell, is the
plot to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">The Taming of the Shrew, </i>by
William Shakespeare.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></b></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></span></b></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Come for a pleasant
evening of Shakespeare, while cruising on the canal, as the Canal Fulton
Players present this absolutely raucous comedy on August 20-21, 27-28 at 6:00
pm on the St. Helena III, Lock 4 Park, and the Canal Ways Center, 125 West
Tuscarawas Street, Canal Fulton, Ohio.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>The cost of the performance and cruise on the canal is $23.00.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Not only is a suitor hired to woo the older
sister but the various suitors use various forms of deception to win the hand
of the fair young sister.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>By the time the
climax of the play occurs, there is so much confusion as to who is with whom
and who actually the shrew is.</span></b></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span></b></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Starring
in this fine comedy are Shawna Shaw as Katharine, the tart tongued older
sister, Katherine, Geri Marken as fair Bianca, Cindy Bagocius as Baptista, the
harried mother, Zach Donahue as Petruchio, the town braggart hired to woo
Katharine, Josh Rowe, as Hortensio, the suitor who hires Petruchio, Charles
Hayward, as Gremio, the older suitor who has ideas of his own, Daniel Schmidt,
as Lucentio, the young student who is willing to shed his identity for love,
Nathan Schmidt as Tranio, the loyal servant who aids Lucentio, and David Van
Gaasbeek, as Vincentio, the loving but confused father of Lucentio and master
of Tranio.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Also appearing are Melanie
Sneir, the first weekend, and Chuck Bonakowski, the second weekend as Grumio,
Petrucchio’s loyal but sarcastic servant, Michal Donahue, as Biondella,
Baptista’s earnest but confused servant, and Sharon Nolan, in multiple roles.</span></b></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Producing
and directing this play with a great assist from assistant director Charles
Hayward is David Van Gaasbeek.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>“The
whole concept of this play is to give the audience a new surreal experience in
which the cast is all over the place performing as the audience drifts down the
canal to Lock IV Park and back to and from the Canal Ways Center,” says Mr. Van
Gaasbeek.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>“Shakespeare is a wonderful
playwright who mastered the art of comedy by giving the director and his or her
cast free license to do anything they wanted because he gave no stage
directions except entrance and exit.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The
actors can really go over the top without violating the tenor of the story.” Tickets
can be purchased by calling 330-854-6835.</span></b></div>
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