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face=Georgia><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ">The Cleveland Play House’s love affair
with Tony Award-winning contemporary playwright Ken Ludwig
continues.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><FONT face=Georgia>After staging world
premiere productions of his “Leading Ladies” in 2004, “The Game’s Afoot” in
2011, “A Comedy of Tenors” to open its centennial season in 2015, and “Ken
Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery” in 2017, Ludwig’s latest work
is on stage at the Allen Theatre.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><FONT face=Georgia>It is easy to see
the attraction.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Ludwig has mastered
the farce formula – the silly situations that escalate into mayhem, the witty
repartee delivered at lightning speed, and the performance of highly stylized,
high-energy physical funny-business.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And his most recent plays, which are comical take-offs of others’ serious
works, are branded with his very own name in their titles.<SPAN
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face=Georgia><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ">“Ken Ludwig's Sherwood: The Adventures
of Robin Hood” was commissioned by and received its world premiere at <SPAN
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color=#333333>The Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, CA in 2017 under the less
audacious but more assertively punctuated title “Robin Hood!”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Its subsequent name change is due, in
part, to avoid comparisons with the many other modern retellings of the
</FONT></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
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color=#222222>Robin Hood legend but, of course, comparisons are inevitable.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And they come up
favorably.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></P>
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