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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><b>Notre Dame’s Fall 2023 Theatre Ensemble students</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"> will
perform world premiere workshop productions of:</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><b>Hope's Diner</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"> by
Reginald Edmund. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><b>Benchmark
</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">by Casidy Thomas (NDC Class of 2023) </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><b>In-Limbo</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"> by
The Fall 2023 Theatre Ensemble members. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><b>Friday, November 17th, Saturday, November 18, at 7:30 p.m.
</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><b> Sunday,
November 19th, at 2 p.m., all in Regina Auditorium on the campus of Notre Dame College</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">The College’s New Play Festival is open to all Notre Dame faculty, staff and students as well as all Cuyahoga County residents.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><b>The event is FREE! With a $5 suggested donation to support The Performing Arts Department at Notre Dame College</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><b>Run time</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"> for
the three short pieces is </span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><b>1hr and 15min. </b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The three scripts were presented as Staged Readings earlier this semester in September!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><b>Join us and be a part of the new play process and celebrate these new works!! </b></span></div>
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<p class="elementToProof"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 800; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">The Notre Dame College 2023 Fall New Plays Festival
</span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">is supported in part by the
</span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 800; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">residents of Cuyahoga County
</span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">through a public grant from
</span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 800; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Cuyahoga Arts & Culture.
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Questions? Email Celeste Cosentino, Director of Theatre Studies. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><b>ccosentino@ndc.edu
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</span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><b>216-373-6540</b></span></div>
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