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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt">"Blank Canvas's OF MICE AND MEN is a compelling piece of theatre. This is an absolutely must-see production filled with fine acting and focused staging."</span></i><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:48.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">OF MICE AND MEN</span></b><span style="font-size:48.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">By John Steinbeck<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">May 18 - 20</span></b><strong><span style="font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> This critically acclaimed revival from our first season is still relevant today.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Hope slams headlong into a wall of tragic bad luck in this tale of migrant workers in Depression-era California. A seemingly impossible
American Dream fuels sadness, yet the depth of tragedy is balanced by joy and friendship, hope and aspiration. In George and Lenny, we have one of literature’s most memorable friendships. As relevant now as it ever was, Steinbeck’s play follows his novel closely.
An intimate portrait of two men facing a world marked by petty tyranny, misunderstanding, jealousy, and callousness, Of Mice and Men explores questions of strength, weakness, usefulness, reality and utopia in Depression-Era California.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">RATED:</span></b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> PG-13 <b>RUN TIME:</b> 2hr 10min<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">WARNING:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> There are some disturbing words that the playwright
(John Steinbeck) included which was reflective of the vernacular used during the period of the The Great Depression (1929–1939).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">ADDITIONAL TRIGGER & CONTENT WARNING:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> This play contains
the following; racism, ableism, misogyny, murder, gun violence, and animal death.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Tickets: $25</span></b></span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">To purchase tickets for this show <a href="http://www.blankcanvastheatre.com/of-mice-and-men-tickets/" target="_blank" title="CLICK HERE">CLICK
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">To view a poster for the show <a href="http://www.blankcanvastheatre.com/of-mice-and-men/" target="_blank" title="CLICK HERE">CLICK
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">To see a <span class="apple-style-span">CAST & STAFF list</span> for this production <a href="http://www.blankcanvastheatre.com/of-mice-and-men-cast/" target="_blank" title="CLICK HERE">CLICK
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<a href="http://www.blankcanvastheatre.com/2023-season-photos/of-mice-and-men/">CLICK HERE</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">To WATCH the trailer for our show
<a href="https://youtu.be/xfyda7-TX-A">CLICK HERE</a><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">1305 West 78th Street, Suite 211. Cleveland, OH 44102<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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