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<h1 align="center"><i>CHAGRIN VALLEY LITTLE THEATRE</i></h1>
<p align="center">presents<br>
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href="http://cvlt.org/events/middletown/">MIDDLETOWN</a></h2>
<p align="center"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://cvlt.org/events/middletown/"><b>by Will Eno</b></a></p>
<p align="center"><b>April 26 - May 11, 2019</b><br>
Fridays & Saturdays at 8 PM, Sunday May 5 at 2 PM<br>
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<div align="center">CVLT's River Street Playhouse<br>
56 River Street<br>
Chagrin Falls , OH 44022</div>
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<div align="center">Tickets $13<br>
<a href="http://cvlt.org/events/middletown/">http://cvlt.org/events/middletown/</a>
or 440-247-8955<br>
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<p align="center">Directed by ROGER ATWELL<br>
Produced by CINDEE CATALANO-EDELMAN<br>
Stage Manager: KAREN PAKTINAT<br>
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MIDDLETOWN, which the Chicago Tribune described as “reminiscent of
Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, 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.<br>
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Will Eno’s plays have earned him many accolades, including finalist
consideration for a Pulitzer, and this deeply moving and charmingly
quirky play was winner of the 2010 Horton Foote Award for Most
Promising New Play.<br>
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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.<br>
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“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>
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