<div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">Playwrights Local and<br>Radio on the Lake Theatre<br>Present a New Radio Play<br></font><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><font size="4" color="#ff0000">LOVE AND ECSTASY</font></b><br><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></b></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>Written by Gail Nyoka<br>Directed by Terrence Spivey</b><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>Featuring Jeannine Gaskin, Christina Johnson, Jill Kenderes, and Sharron McPherson-Foxx</b><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Available for free streaming and download at </span><a href="http://www.playwrightslocal.org/plradio/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">PL Radio</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, </span><a href="https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9ff05a58-21a7-435e-a501-4fe05c820df3/PL-Radio" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">AmazonMusic</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, </span><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pl-radio/id1551854977" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Apple Podcasts</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, </span><a href="https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkLnBvZGJlYW4uY29tL3BsYXl3cmlnaHRzbG9jYWwvZmVlZC54bWw" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Google Podcasts</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, </span><a href="https://playwrightslocal.podbean.com/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">PodBean</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, </span><a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/7s668zHXZGsFWabw1F0Ovc" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Spotify</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, & </span><a href="https://www.stitcher.com/show/pl-radio" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Stitcher</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></font></p><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Production information at </span></font><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.playwrightslocal.org/love-and-ecstasy/" target="_blank">www.playwrightslocal.org/love-and-ecstasy/</a>.<span style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></font></font></p><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">PL Radio series information at </span><a href="http://www.playwrightslocal.org/plradio/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">www.playwrightslocal.org/plradio/</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b style="white-space:pre-wrap">Synopsis</b><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">From Ireland to Barbados, to Trinidad and to England, trauma passes through five generations of women. Each one denies her truth at her own cost and suffers in her own way. Each searches for love. The narrator has reached a crisis. Like her great-great grandmother, she is a seer. It is at this point of crisis that the narrator discovers her hidden abilities. Is she descending into madness? Do her ancestors have anything to teach her? And is she able to listen?<b style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></b></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>From the Producers</b></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Check out </span></font><i>Love and Ecstasy</i><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">along with other recent releases including <i>Family Markers</i> by Faye Sholiton and<i> </i></span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Limbo</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> by Agnes Herrmann at </span><a href="http://www.playwrightslocal.org/plradio/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">PL Radio</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, and look for additional new plays by </span>Christopher Johnston and others<span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> in the coming weeks!</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><b><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Credits</font></b></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Run Time: 36:00<b><br></b></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:n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