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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:
2/16/2019</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><br>
PRESS PHOTOS: <a href="http://CVLT.org/promo">www.CVLT.org/promo</a></p>
<h3 style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color:#000; font-size:12pt;">Will Eno's playful dramatic
comedy MIDDLETOWN at CVLT in April/May</h3>
<p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size:10pt">CHAGRIN
FALLS, Ohio - Will Eno's plays have earned him many
accolades, including finalist consideration for a
Pulitzer. On April 26, director Roger Atwell and a cast of
thirteen premiere Eno's MIDDLETOWN on Chagrin Valley
Little Theatre's intimate River Street Playhouse stage.
The seven-show run includes Friday and Saturday evening
performances at 8 PM through May 11 and a Sunday matinee
at 2 PM on May 5.</p>
<p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size:10pt">MIDDLETOWN,
which the Chicago Tribune described as "reminiscent of
Thornton Wilder’s <em>Our Town</em>, if it had been
penned by Dr. Seuss and edited by Samuel Beckett," begins
with the arrival of Mary Swanson (Claudia Allen). Mary is
about to become a mother and seeks the kinship of a small
neighborhood, including her new friend John (Michael
Litherland). However, the world of Middletown is
unexpectedly complex. The town seems to have an ordinary
public side and a mysteriously epic hidden one, taking
Mary and the audience on a poignant and strange trip that
spans from the local library to outer space and points in
between.</p>
<p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size:10pt">This
deeply moving and charmingly quirky play was winner of the
2010 Horton Foote Award for Most Promising New Play.
CVLT's production features an ensemble cast who portray
the many inhabitants of Middletown, including Sue Beattie,
Kate Bernardo, John Bruce, Dennis Burby, Jerry Cordaro,
Craig Gifford, Alyssa Hall, Robert Hawkes, Chris Herak,
Lisa Lazarczyk and Jeanne Task.</p>
<p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size:10pt">“We
spend a lot of time thinking about the end and the
beginning, in kind of self-aggrandizing ways," Eno told
the Boston Globe in a 2013 interview. "We talk about the
miracle of birth and the mystery of death. But, by
definition, all of our lives take place in the middle of
those two sort of unknowable events, in this great and
often unexamined middle. So I wanted to write a play that
put some thoughts and feelings in the air about the
miracle and the mystery and that alluded to deep and
unknown forces. But then really just have people going to
the store and fixing the sink and going through the normal
things of looking for love and getting up in the morning.
Because that’s how we live.”<br>
</p>
<p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size:10pt">Tickets
are $13 general admission at CVLT.org, by phone at
440-247-8955, or at the Box Office at 40 River Street 1-6
p.m. Monday through Saturday. Due to limited seating and
road improvement work in the area, advance reservations
and arrival are recommended. The River Street Playhouse is
located at 56 River Street, west of the main CVLT
building.<br>
</p>
<p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size:10pt">CVLT
is generously funded by Cuyahoga County residents through
Cuyahoga Arts and Culture and is supported by the Ohio
Arts Council. CVLT is a proud member of the American
Association of Community Theatre.</p>
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