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align=center><FONT face=Georgia><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt">Cleveland Play
House’s</SPAN></B><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"> ‘Pipeline’<SPAN style="COLOR: ">
connects emotionally, </SPAN>civically</SPAN></B></FONT></P>
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face=Georgia>Bob Abelman</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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face=Georgia>Cleveland Jewish News, The News Herald, The Morning
Journal</FONT></SPAN></I><SPAN
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face=Georgia>With poor, young African-American, Native American, and Latinx
students being suspended and expelled from school more frequently than their
middle-class white counterparts, often resulting in disenfranchisement and
criminalization, it is little wonder that playwrights have been calling for
social justice in their theater-making.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: georgia">Anna
Deavere Smith’s trailblazing “Notes From the Field,” </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-bidi-font-family: arial">which appeared
off-Broadway in 2016, offers a </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: georgia">collection
of open-wound monologues culled from interviews with actual
first-responders.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They include
Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and
Educational Fund, who provides a sobering overview of what is being called the
“school-to-prison pipeline,” and <SPAN
style="BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat; BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll; BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0% 0%; mso-highlight: white">Rev.
Jamal-Harrison Bryant, who spoke at the 2015 funeral of a young black man who
died at the hands of Baltimore police officers.<SPAN
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<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Georgia><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-bidi-font-family: arial">Dominique Morisseau
has taken a different approach with </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ">“Pipeline,” which was first seen at New York
City’s Lincoln Center in 2017 and is now in production by the Cleveland Play
House under </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-bidi-font-family: arial">Steve H. Broadnax
III’s direction</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ">.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>She provides an intense, didactic
dramatization of an African-American family on the front line of the
crisis.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style='FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"'>For
more of this review, go to: </SPAN><SPAN
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color=#0000ff>www.clevelandjewishnews.com/columnists/bob_abelman/</FONT></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>