<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:10px"> <div align="center" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30521"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30522" size="5">Dobama Theatre Concludes</font></div><div align="center" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30523" dir="ltr"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30524" size="5">Playwrights' GYM New Play Readings Series for 2016.17</font></div><div align="center" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30525" dir="ltr"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30526" size="5"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30527"></font></div><div align="left" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30528" dir="ltr"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30529" size="3">The Playwrights' GYM, Dobama Theatre's playwriting unit, provides local playwrights with the opportunity to workshop new work. </font></div><div align="left" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30530" dir="ltr"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30531" size="3">Nine readings of Playwright GYM members' work will be presenting at Dobama Theatre during their 2016/17 Season.</font></div><div align="left" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30532" dir="ltr"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30533" size="3">All these readings are<b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30534"> FREE</b> and open to the public, <b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30535">with wine and beer available for a special GYM reading price of $1.</b></font></div><div align="left" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30536" dir="ltr"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30537" size="3"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30538"></font></div><div align="left" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30539" dir="ltr"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30540" size="3">All readings begin at 7 pm and are general seating.</font></div><div align="left" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30541" dir="ltr"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30542" size="3"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30543"></font></div><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30544" size="3"><div align="left" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30545" dir="ltr">Monday, May 1</div><div align="left" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30546" dir="ltr"><b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30547">Weimer</b> by Les Hunter </div><div align="left" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30548" dir="ltr">Directed by Anjanette Hall</div><div align="left" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30549" dir="ltr"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30550" style="margin:0px;">A radical women's collective attempts to resist the authoritarian inclinations of their recently elected government. </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30551" style="margin:0px;" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30552" style="margin:0px;font-size:4pt;"> </span>Based partially on research into contemporary and Weimar-era collectively organized communitarian projects, and in part developed out of conversations with the performers. </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30553" style="margin:0px;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30554" style="margin:0px;font-size:4pt;"> </span>The play, in the tradition of the German lehrstück (learning play), takes place in a heightened moment that borrows from both historic Weimar-era, Germany and contemporary America.</div></div><div align="left" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30555" dir="ltr"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30556"></div><div align="left" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30557" dir="ltr">Featuring: Brooke Turner, Sydnee Savannah Williams, Brittany Ganser, Bryce Evan Lewis, Kenzie Critzer and Esma M Eddeb <div align="center" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30558" style="margin:0px;text-align:center;"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30559"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30560" style="background:white;margin:0px;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30561" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(29, 33, 41);">Baldwin Wallace University Department of Theatre and Dance commissioned <i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30562">Weimar</i> to appear as part of their 2017-2018 season.</span></div><div align="center" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30563" style="margin:0px;text-align:center;" dir="ltr"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30564"></div></div><div align="left" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30565" dir="ltr">Act One will be read. Approximately 40 minutes with no intermission.</div><div align="left" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30566" dir="ltr"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30567"></div><div align="left" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30568" dir="ltr">Monday, May 8 <b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30569">Rastus and Hattie </b></div><div align="left" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30570" dir="ltr">by Lisa Langford</div><div align="left" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30571" dir="ltr"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30572" color="darkslategray"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30573" style="margin:0px;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30574" style='margin:0px;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;font-size:12pt;'><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30575" color="#000000">Needra is an African-American scientist who’s perfectly happy being perfectly post-racial; in fact, she’s researching a way to excise racial trauma from Black people’s DNA.</font><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30576" style="margin:0px;"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30577" color="#000000"> </font></span><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30578" color="#000000">Needra and her best friend Marlene, who is white, have the perfect post-racial friendship—perfect until Marlene’s husband finds two robots who challenge Needra’s understanding of race and history in America.</font></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30579" style="margin:0px;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30580" style='margin:0px;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;font-size:12pt;'><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30581" color="#000000"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30582"></font></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30583" style="margin:0px;" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30584" style='margin:0px;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;font-size:12pt;'><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30585" color="#000000">In the early 1930s, Westinghouse experimented with mechanical robots who were supposed to make life easier by doing all the stuff humans didn’t want to do: cooking, cleaning, fighting wars, etc. However, one robot, Rastus, was Black. Seriously. He had brown skin, an afro, and was dressed not unlike a slave.</font><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30586" style="margin:0px;"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30587" color="#000000"> </font></span><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30588" color="#000000">I started wondering why a time-saving robot had to be Black and what did Blackness mean in post-Obama America. </font><i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30589"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30590" color="#000000">Rastus & Hattie</font></i><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30591" color="#000000"> comes out of all that.</font></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30592" style="margin:0px;" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30593" style='margin:0px;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;font-size:12pt;'><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30594"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30595"></font></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30596" style="margin:0px;" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30597" style='margin:0px;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;font-size:12pt;'><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30598">Featuring: Courtney Brown, Gordon Hinchen, Samantha Richards, Eric Sever, Amy Schwabauer and Greg White.</font></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30599" style="margin:0px;" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30600" style='margin:0px;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;font-size:12pt;'><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30601"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30602"></font></span></div><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30603" style='margin:0px;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;font-size:12pt;'><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30604"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30605" style="margin:0px;" dir="ltr">Approximately 2 hours with an intermission</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30606" style="margin:0px;"><u id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30607"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30608" style='margin:0px;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;font-size:12pt;'><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30609"></span></u></div></font></span></font></div><div align="left" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30610" dir="ltr"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30611">Monday, February 6 <b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30612"> The Dangerous House of Mookie Wilson </b>by Cornell Calhoun III </font></div><div align="left" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30613" dir="ltr">Cleveland, Ohio 1954. The Wilson Girls are all grown up and somebody just killed their daddy on 105th. Do they remain ladies or become gangsters?</div><div align="left" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30614" dir="ltr">"If you roll the dice, you move the mice."</div><div align="left" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30615" dir="ltr"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30616"></div><div align="left" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30617" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30618" style="font-size:12pt;">Featuring: Darryl Tatum, Terrell Cole, Christine Johnson, Mia Jones, Leatron Twitty, Zoe Isabela McClain-Ferrell, Carla Macon and Courtney McLain</span></div><div align="left" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30619" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30620" style="font-size:12pt;"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30621"></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30622" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30623" style="font-size:12pt;">Approximately 1 hour & 10 minutes with no intermission </span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30624" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30625" style="font-size:12pt;"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30626" color="#2f4f4f"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30627"></font></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30628" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30629" style="font-size:12pt;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30630"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30631">Dobama Theatre is located at 2340 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights, OH 44118 in the Library Annex Building of the Main Branch of the Cleveland Heights Public Library.</span></span></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30632" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30633" style="font-size:12pt;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30634"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30635"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30636"></span></span></span></div><div id="yiv7443270702yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493568404102_23973" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30638" style="font-size:12pt;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30639"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493659540456_30640">For more information, please call 216.932.3396</span></span></span></div></font></div></body></html>