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<p class="MsoNormal">CSU Department of Theatre and Dance presents<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:22.0pt;color:teal">A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">April 20-30, 2017<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Cleveland State University’s Department of Theatre and Dance, a Resident Company of Playhouse Square, closes its 2016-2017 season with the Tennessee Williams classic
<b><i><span style="color:teal">A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE</span></i></b><i>.</i> Playing the Helen Rosenfeld Lewis Bialosky Lab Theatre in the Allen Theatre Complex of Playhouse Square
<b>April 20-30, 2017</b>, this definitive American drama is guest directed by Dobama Theatre Artistic Director
<b>Nathan Motta</b>.<b><i><span style="color:teal"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>General Ticketing<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Shows run Thursdays through Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., as well as Sundays at 2 p.m. $10 General Admission Tickets are available by calling 216.241.6000, visiting
<a href="http://www.playhousesquare.org/events/detail/a-streetcar-named-desire">playhousesquare.org</a>, or buying at the State Theatre Ticket Office, located at 1519 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44115. Tickets are also available 60-minutes prior to performances
at the Allen Theatre Complex. CSU Students, Faculty and Staff can purchase one $5.00 ticket per Valid CSU ID presented at time of in person purchase.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>The Story <o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color:teal">A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE </span>
</i></b>is considered one of the greatest plays written for the American Theatre. It is a timeless piece about delusion, reality, madness, love, and loss. Set in a small garden apartment in 1940s New Orleans, Stanley Kowalski's primitive desires violently clash
with Blanch Dubois' longing for a past which may or may not have ever existed. Immortalized by the film starring Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh, this iconic play blends grittiness and lyricism to create some of the most memorable and heart-wrenching characters
ever created.<b><i><span style="color:teal"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">According to director Nathan Motta, "STREETCAR is one of the greatest treasures in the canon of American Theatre. I'm looking forward to collaborating with CSU students and staff to create a production that rejects the treatment of this
play as a period, antiquated, museum piece, but rather presents a relevant, urgent piece of epic, intimate theatre."<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">"This play deals with themes and issues that unfortunately are concerns America is still grappling with; class discrimination, gender inequality, domestic violence, and sexual assault among other things."<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>The all CSU Cast includes Lilyvette Acevedo</b> as Flower Vendor/Mexican Woman,
<b>Cheyenne Bizon</b> as Nurse, <b>Nadia Valencia Davis</b> as Eunice Hubbell, <b>
Nick Earl</b> as Stanley Kowalski, <b>Jacob Christopher Gaspar</b> as Steve Hubbell,
<b>Caitlin M. Hathaway</b> as Stella Kowalski, <b>Joseph I Jackson</b> as Pablo Gonzalez,
<b>Alyssa Jacobs</b> as Woman/Negro Woman, <b>Steven Livingston</b> as Harold “Mitch” Mitchell,
<b>Sullivan Ratcliff</b> as A Young Collector, <b>Jamie K. Satterfield</b> as Blanche Dubois, and
<b>Peter Sherman</b> as Doctor.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><a href="http://www.playhousesquare.org/events/detail/a-streetcar-named-desire">CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS AND INFORMATION</a> for
<i><span style="color:teal">A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE</span></i></b><b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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