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<h1 style="font: normal 12pt sans-serif; color:#C00;
text-transform: uppercase; margin-bottom: -30px"><strong>PRESS
RELEASE</strong><br>
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</h1>
<p style="font-size:10pt; font-weight:normal;font-family:
arial, sans-serif; color:#000000;" align="right">Date:
10/11/16</p>
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<p style="font-size:10pt; font-weight:normal;font-family:
arial, sans-serif; color:#000000;">Contact: Andrew Rothman<br>
From: Chagrin Valley Little Theatre </p>
<p style="font-size:10pt; font-weight:normal;font-family:
arial, sans-serif; color:#000000;">40 River Street<br>
Chagrin Falls, OH 44122<br>
Phone: 440-247-8955<br>
E-mail: <a href="mailto:cvlt@cvlt.org">cvlt@cvlt.org</a><br>
Website: <a href="http://www.cvlt.org/">www.cvlt.org</a></p>
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<h3 style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color:#000; font-size:10pt;"><strong><span
style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size:
10pt; color: #000000">The late Edward Albee's
masterwork WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF opens at
CVLT on </span></strong>October 21</h3>
<p style="font-size:10pt; font-weight:normal;font-family:
arial, sans-serif; color:#000000;"> CHAGRIN FALLS, Ohio -
When the eminent American playwright Edward Albee passed
away at age 88 last month, director Claudia Lillibridge
was already rehearsing her four-member cast to present his
seminal blockbuster, WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?, for
its October 21 opening at Chagrin Valley Little Theatre's
River Street Playhouse. The six-evening run includes 8 PM
performances on Fridays and Saturdays through November 5.
Tickets are $12, general admission.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt; font-weight:normal;font-family:
arial, sans-serif; color:#000000;">WHO'S AFRAID was
Albee's Broadway debut and won five Tony Awards, including
Best Play, in 1963. It ran for more than a year and a
half, finding its way to the big screen in 1966 with the
famous Mike Nichols adaptation starring Richard Burton and
Elizabeth Taylor. Albee's ruthless and riveting drama has
been enthralling and shocking audiences ever since.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt; font-weight:normal;font-family:
arial, sans-serif; color:#000000;">CVLT's production
features actors Rob Walter and Darlene Rocco as 'George'
and 'Martha', the embittered married couple who invite
their younger counterparts, 'Nick' (John Hickman) and
'Honey' (Jennifer Betz), over for a night-cap following a
university faculty party. What begins as a friendly
invitation quickly spirals into a booze-soaked battle of
psychological warfare, hurtling through the darker sides
of marriage, academia, and the human condition, to reach
an explosive conclusion.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt; font-weight:normal;font-family:
arial, sans-serif; color:#000000;">As with all of Albee's
works, WHO'S AFRAID holds an often-unflattering mirror up
to its characters and, by extension, the audience. In
interviews with the New York Times and The Guardian, Albee
described it as the writer's job to raise that mirror.
"All of my plays are about people missing the boat,
closing down too young, coming to the end of their lives
with regret at things not done, as opposed to things
done," he said. "We're not merely decorative, pleasant,
and safe."</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt; font-weight:normal;font-family:
arial, sans-serif; color:#000000;">CVLT's River Street
Playhouse is the venerable non-profit's intimate 62-seat
"black box" stage, offering audiences an up-close seat for
the withering dialog and emotional fireworks on stage.
WHO'S AFRAID was seen at CVLT in the same space
thirty-four years ago. The script contains very strong
language and adult themes and is therefore not recommended
for sensitive audiences or those under age sixteen. </p>
<p style="font-size:10pt; font-weight:normal;font-family:
arial, sans-serif; color:#000000;">Tickets to WHO'S AFRAID
OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? are available by phone at 440-247-8955
or online at CVLT.org. The River Street Playhouse is
located at 56 River Street, just west of the main CVLT
building in downtown Chagrin Falls. Seating and parking
are limited, and early reservations and arrival are
recommended.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt; font-weight:normal;font-family:
arial, sans-serif; color:#000000;">CVLT is generously
funded by Cuyahoga County residents through Cuyahoga Arts
and Culture and supported by the Ohio Arts Council. CVLT
is a proud member of the American Association of Community
Theatre.</p>
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