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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Cleveland Public Theatre and Teatro Público de Cleveland Present</span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:center"><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Debut de Piezas Teatrales: Festival de Lectura
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:center"><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">(Festival of New Plays)</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Nov. 30 through Dec. 3, 2023</span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#121212;background:white"><a href="https://teatropublico.org/">Teatro Público de Cleveland</a> kicks off<b>
</b>10<sup> </sup>years with a new play reading festival <i><a href="https://www.cptonline.org/performances/seasons/2023-2024/debut-de-piezas-teatrales-festival-de-lectura-a-festival-of-new-play-readings/">Debut de Piezas Teatrales: Festival de Lectura (Festival
of New Plays)</a> </i>featuring two new plays that will be performed in rotation from Nov. 30 through Dec. 3, 2023.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#121212;background:white">This bilingual reading series features plays by local and national Latine artists including: <i>Grandeza </i>by Ernesto Luna Camargo, a founding
member of Teatro Público de Cleveland; and <i>Pilar and Paloma</i> by Milta Ortiz of Borderlands Theatre in Arizona.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in"><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Pilar and Paloma<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">By Milta Ortiz
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Directed by Tania Benites<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in"><a name="_Hlk149924747"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Performed in English on 7pm on Thurs., Nov. 30 and Sat., Dec. 2, 2023</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">After the newly built wall, Desert mourns her fallen Saguaros as Lupe rushes to get across the border.
One mother’s grieving ripens another’s pregnancy and Zuri steps in to help Lupe’s twins. In a hurry, Zuri breaks desert convention and years later they must face the consequences.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in"><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Grandeza<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">By Ernesto Luna Camargo<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Directed by Obed Medina<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Performed in Spanish, with English supertitles at 7pm on Fri., Dec. 1, and 3pm Sun., Dec. 3, 2023.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222">A teenager decides to come out of the closet and realizes that the entire world lives inside a closet, clinging to cultural traditions that have been wrong all their
lives. In this black comedy the fight for acceptance will become a journey with no return towards an awakening in consciousness and for that we will need more than courage, we will need to shed ourselves as people.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222">Tickets are Choose What You Pay starting at $1 with no handling fees at
<a href="http://www.cptonline.org">www.cptonline.org</a>. <b>Ticket also includes a pre-show reception with each performance featuring light appetizers from some of Cleveland’s favorite Latin restaurants!
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