<p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(93,93,93);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><b style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">WRP presents it’s first $5 Buck Series reading! All tickets are ONLY $5!</b></span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(93,93,93);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><b style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><br></b></span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(93,93,93);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><b style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Western Reserve Playhouse </b></span><b style="font-size:18pt;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">presents:</b></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(93,93,93);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:18pt;vertical-align:baseline"><b style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">“What the Butler Saw”</b></span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(93,93,93);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">A Comedy by Joe Orton</span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(93,93,93);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Directed by Jim Fippin</span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(93,93,93);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Show Date: January 26, 2020 @ 2PM</span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(93,93,93);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"></p><div dir="auto">Tickets: <a href="http://www.thewrp.org">www.thewrp.org</a></div><p></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(93,93,93);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Western Reserve Playhouse will kick off their 2020 $5 Play Reading Series with a rehearsed reading of Joe Orton’s savagely satirical farce, </span><i style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">What the Butler Saw</i><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">, a mind-bending mash-up of British sex-farce and Monty Python-esque outrageousness. “The Python analogy is apt,” says Jim Fippin, who, in addition to directing </span><i style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">What the Butler Saw</i><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">, is the $5 Buck Series coordinator. “Orton was influenced by a lot the same things that drove the Pythons in the sixties, but he also had a genius for crafting dialogue rivaled only by Oscar Wilde. I have loved this play from the very first moment I read it, and am very excited to share it with an audience as part of the $5 Series.” </span><i style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">What the Butler Saw </i><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">will be performed as a rehearsed reading on Sunday, January 26 at 2:00 p.m. at Western Reserve Playhouse, 3326 Everett Road, in Bath, Ohio. General Admission Tickets are $5.00 each.</span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(93,93,93);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><i style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">What the Butler Saw</i><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"> starts “innocently” enough, with an attempt by psychiatrist </span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Doctor Prentice</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"> to seduce </span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Geraldine Barclay</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">, an applicant for the position of his secretary. But the unexpected arrival of </span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Mrs. Prentice</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"> on the scene is only the first of many interruptions: the police, a government inspector, and a bell-boy are soon running amok in a flurry of mistaken and concealed identities, states of undress, gunfire, and the search for a missing “part” of a statue of Sir Winston Churchill.</span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(93,93,93);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">The roles of </span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Doctor and Mrs. Prentice</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"> will be read by James Rankin and Holly Facer. Mr. Rankin was last seen by Western Reserve audiences in last season’s reading of </span><i style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Finks</i><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">. Ms. Facer was a $5 Series regular in 2019, appearing in </span><i style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Finks</i><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">, </span><i style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Sirens,</i><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"> and </span><i style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Dead Accounts</i><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">. Erin Moore, most recently seen at Weathervane Playhouse in </span><i style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">And Then There Were None<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">,</span></i><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"> will play </span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Geraldine Barclay</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">, making her WRP debut. Akron theatre veteran Alex J. Nine will play </span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Doctor Rance</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">. Mr. Nine has appeared on stages throughout the area, including Ohio Shakespeare Festival, Weathervane, and most recently at Western Reserve Playhouse in </span><i style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Sirens</i><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">.  Cameron Zona, last seen at Western Reserve in </span><i style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">The Bridges of Madison County</i><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">, will play </span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Nicholas Beckett<i style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">.</i></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"> Bob Maddox is an actor whose recent relocation to Northeast Ohio landed him in Weathervane’s </span><i style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">And Then There Were None</i><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">, and in the role of </span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Sergeant Match</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">. </span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(93,93,93);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><i style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">What the Butler Saw</i><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"> will be performed only once, on Sunday, January 26 at 2:00 p.m. Tickets are $5.00 each and may be purchased online at the Western Reserve Playhouse website (<a href="http://thewrp.org">thewrp.org</a>) or by calling the box office at <a href="tel:330-620-7314" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(180,47,6);text-decoration:none">330-620-7314</a>.</span></p>

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