<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><p class="ydp77d2c71byiv5446521217ydpd27fc432msonormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#1D2228">HOW TO BE A RESPECTABLE JUNKIE</span></i></b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#1D2228"></span></p>
<p class="ydp77d2c71byiv5446521217ydpd27fc432msonormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><u><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#1D2228">FREE</span></u><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#1D2228"> <a href="https://attend.cuyahogalibrary.org/event/3825515" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Performance</a>,
Thursday, February 20 (6:30pm)</span></p>
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the Cuyahoga County Public Library</span></p>
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Branch - 2121 Snow Rd.)</span></p>
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<div style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#1D2228">After a powerful
performance two years ago, <i>HTBARJ</i>
returns to the library for a onetime <b>FREE</b> performance. The
75-minute production will be followed by a talkback with the playwright, actor,
and the man who inspired the play.</span></div><div style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#1D2228"><br></span></div><div style="background:white" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#1D2228"><span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span></span></span></div><div style="background:white" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#1D2228"><span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">You may register for the performance at this </span><a href="https://attend.cuyahogalibrary.org/event/3825515" style="color: rgb(25, 106, 212); text-decoration-line: underline; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">link</span></a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">. Seats are filling fast!</span></span><br></span></div>
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<p class="ydp77d2c71byiv5446521217ydpd27fc432msonormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#1D2228">Based on the true
story of a man from NE Ohio who overcame heroin addiction, <i>HOW TO BE A
RESPECTABLE JUNKIE</i> is an award-winning play written by Greg Vovos and
featuring Christopher Bohan*. It is a humorous, heartbreaking, but ultimately
hopeful look into the struggles faced by those caught in heroin’s deadly grip. </span></p>
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<p class="ydp77d2c71byiv5446521217ydpd27fc432msonormal" style="background:white"><i><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#1D2228">HTBARJ</span></i><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#1D2228"> premiered at Dobama Theatre in the Summer of 2017 where it was
directed by Nathan Motta and played to sold-out audiences and received both
critical and audience acclaim, including a feature in the New York Times. Since
then it has toured to colleges, art galleries, conferences, medical schools,
and theatres both in and out of Ohio. <b>Don’t
miss the opportunity to see it free, if you haven’t already!</b></span></p>
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<p class="ydp77d2c71byiv5446521217ydpd27fc432msonormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#1D2228">If you’d like to get a
feel for what the play is like, here’s a </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Itna_cHI5RA&t=6s" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#196AD4">link to an extended
trailer</span></a><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#1D2228">.</span></p>
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<p class="ydp77d2c71byiv5446521217ydpd27fc432msonormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#1D2228">Please note, the play
does have some profanity and depicts drug use.</span></p>
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<div style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#1D2228">Any questions can be
emailed to: </span><a href="mailto:respectablejunkie@gmail.com@yahoo.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">respectablejunkie@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#1D2228">. Or you can like our
HOW TO BE A RESPECTABLE JUNKIE page on facebook. Twitter: @HTBARJ</span></div><div style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#1D2228"><br></span></div>
<p class="ydp77d2c71byiv5446521217ydpd27fc432msonormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><a href="http://www.respectablejunkie.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">www.respectablejunkie.com</span></a><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#1D2228"></span></p>
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<p class="ydp77d2c71byiv5446521217ydpd27fc432msonormal" style="background:white"><i><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#1D2129">"Sometimes, a
play simply must be seen because it speaks so many languages. "How to Be a
Respectable Junkie," ... is something of a Rosetta stone.”</span></i><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#1D2228"></span></p>
<p class="ydp77d2c71byiv5446521217ydpd27fc432msonormal" style="margin-left:.5in;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#1D2129">Andrea
Simakis, THE PLAIN<i> </i>DEALER</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#1D2228"></span></p>
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<p class="ydp77d2c71byiv5446521217ydpd27fc432msonormal" style="background:white"><i><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#1D2129">"...a powerful
piece of theater...brutally precise.”</span></i><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#1D2228"></span></p>
<p class="ydp77d2c71byiv5446521217ydpd27fc432msonormal" style="margin-left:.5in;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#1D2129;mso-bidi-font-style:italic">Christine Howey, SCENE</span></p>
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<p class="ydp77d2c71byiv5446521217ydpd27fc432msonormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">“<i>Every
so often a show comes along that hits with the intensity of a car wreck. This
is such a show with no punches being pulled. At times humorous to counter
balance the raw nerve intensity it is a stark look at a national epidemic that
shows no sign of weakening. As brutal as it is, this is must see theater."</i>
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<p class="ydp77d2c71byiv5446521217ydpd27fc432msonormal" style="margin-left:.5in;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Talkin' Broadway. </span></p>
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<p class="ydp77d2c71byiv5446521217ydpd27fc432msonormal" style="background:white"><em><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#1D2228">How to Be A
Respectable Junkie</span></em><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#1D2228"> is <i>a special evening of theater. Superb acting,
within the confines of a meaningful script…absolute must-be-seen theater for
anyone who goes to be informed, to share in a real experience.</i></span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="ydp77d2c71byiv5446521217ydpd27fc432msonormal" style="margin-left:.5in;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#1D2228">Roy
Berko, CoolCleveland</span></p>
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<p class="ydp77d2c71byiv5446521217ydpd27fc432msonormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#1D2228">We are grateful to the
Cuyahoga County Public Library for enabling us to share this
important work with the community, free of charge.</span></p>
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of Actors’ Equity Association</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#1D2228"></span></p>
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