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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#760C39;background:white">NEWS RELEASE</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#760C39"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">Melanie YC Pepe</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">Chief Executive/Artistic Director</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<a href="tel:330.826.2626"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">330.836.2626</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">THE CAST IS SET FOR “THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME” PLAYING AT WEATHERVANE PLAYHOUSE SEPTEMBER 6 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 23, 2018<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Tony and Olivier Award-Winning Best Play <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A New Play by Simon Stephens, Adapted From the Novel by Mark Haddon
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<p class="MsoNormal">Directed by Melanie YC Pepe, Choreographed and Assistant Directed by Kevin Lambes<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Casting is set for “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” presented at Weathervane Playhouse in Akron. The Tony Award-winning new play by Simon Stephens is adapted from Mark Haddon’s best-selling novel.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><u>CAST<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in">CHRISTOPHER Maxwell Rees<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in">SIOBHAN Grace Mitri<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in">ED Richard Worswick<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in">JUDY Jeannie Clarkson<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in">VOICE ONE/MRS. SHEARS/GASCOYNE (and others) Laura Stitt<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in">VOICE TWO/ROGER SHEARS (and others) Scott Davis<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in">VOICE THREE/POLICEMAN (and others) Stephen Pfister<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in">VOICE FOUR/REV. PETERS (and others) John Zido<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in">VOICE FIVE/NO. 40/PUNK GIRL (and others) Allison Kump<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in">VOICE SIX/MRS. ALEXANDER (and others) Harriet DeVeto<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In “… this highly original, deeply engaging play” (Elysa Gardner, USA Today), 15-year-old Christopher has an extraordinary brain; he is exceptionally intelligent but ill-equipped to interpret everyday life. When he falls under suspicion
for killing his neighbor’s dog, he sets out to identify the true culprit, which leads to an earth-shattering discovery and a journey that will change his life forever.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">“The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” transferred to London’s West End, following a sold-out run at the National’s Cottesloe Theatre in 2012. The production received seven 2013 Olivier Awards, including Best New Play and continues
to play to sold-out houses at the Gielgud Theatre in London. A UK and Ireland Tour launched in 2014 and a second tour of the UK and Ireland launched in January of this year.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">“Curious Incident…,” the longest running play on Broadway in the past 10 years, opened on October 5, 2014, at the Barrymore Theatre, winning five Tony Awards including Best Play, six Drama Desk Awards including Outstanding Play, five Outer
Critics Circle Awards including Outstanding Production of a Broadway Play and the Drama League Award for Outstanding Production of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Play.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Tickets for “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” are available by calling 330.836.2626, online at www.WeathervanePlayhouse.com or by visiting the Weathervane Playhouse Box Office located at 1301 Weathervane Lane in Akron.
Tickets range from $10 – $22. Weathervane Playhouse is located in Merriman Valley in Akron, 1301 Weathervane Lane, 44313.<o:p></o:p></p>
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