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face=Georgia><FONT color=#222222>‘Central Concern’ at Cleveland Public Theatre
offers an </FONT></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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face=Georgia>Bob Abelman</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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Journal</FONT></SPAN></I><SPAN
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style='FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'>Imagine
if Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s political satire “T</SPAN><SPAN
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style='FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'>Opera,”
where the </SPAN><SPAN
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make life decisions based solely on the desire for material
things</SPAN></FONT><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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face=Georgia> was about the Ohio real estate industry<SPAN style="COLOR: "><FONT
color=#222222>. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then picture this
play-with-music living inside the grotesque world of a Hieronymus Bosch painting
that is populated by the menacing but buffoonish Blue Meanies from “Yellow
Submarine.” </FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
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is “Central Concern,” a delightfully subversive and genuinely bizarre work
conceived and directed by Pandora Robertson, who is </SPAN><SPAN
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recipient of the Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for
playwriting</SPAN><SPAN
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color=#222222>.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The one-act,
85-minute play’s world premiere production, in partnership with the Ohio City
Theatre Project, is on stage and pretty much in your face at Cleveland Public
Theatre.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></P>
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