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<b><span style="font-size:18.0pt">Cleveland Public Theatre presents<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:18.0pt"><a href="https://www.cptonline.org/performances/seasons/2023-2024/category/series/test-flight/">TEST FLIGHT 2024</a></span></b><span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:18.0pt">March 7 – March 30, 2024</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt">Featuring four workshop productions by Northeast Ohio artists as part of CPT’s New Play Development Program</span><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt">.</span></i><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> Many of the Test Flight productions
go on to have full productions at CPT and other theatres across the country.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:105%"><a href="https://www.cptonline.org/performances/seasons/2023-2024/test-flight-week-1-eyes-of-the-bridge/"><b>WEEK 1: March 7 – 9
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</b><i>Eyes of the Bridge</i><br>
Written by Jeanne Madison<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:105%">Directed by Michael Oatman<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:105%;color:#222222;background:white">What happens when Black love collides with White lust at the turn of the 20th century in the old south? Forty years later, when Luda
Mae gets a mysterious summons, she sees a chance for the reckoning. Will she act? Or will the Jim Crow status quo prevail?</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:105%"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:105%"><a href="https://www.cptonline.org/performances/seasons/2023-2024/test-flight-week-2-temptation-of-adam/"><b>WEEK 2: March 14 – 16
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</b><i>Temptation of Adam<br>
</i>Written by Samantha Cocco<span style="color:#222222;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:105%;color:#222222;background:white">Directed by Mike Frye<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:105%;color:#222222;background:white">The onset of World War 3 forces a select few to move underground into top-secret missile silos. In one such bunker we find Adam, a
nuclear scientist given a grave responsibility; his loyal friend Danny, grappling with his family's health; and Marie, the strong-willed object of Adam's affection. While Danny and Marie worry about the survival of their loved ones and the world, Adam's trepidation
lies with whether his budding relationship with Marie would survive above ground. Temptation of Adam examines the toll that isolation takes on our lives and relationships and what we might do when desperate for love and human connection.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:105%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><a href="https://www.cptonline.org/performances/seasons/2023-2024/test-flight-week-3-how-to-live-in-a-house-on-fire/">WEEK 3: March 21-23
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<i><span style="font-size:14.0pt">How to Live in a House on Fire<br>
</span></i><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Written and Directed by Kari Barclay</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#222222;background:white">It’s 2020 in Berkeley, California, and wildfires are raging. </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt">As a gay couple prepares to evacuate,
they decide what from the 50 years of their relationship to take with them and what to leave behind. Their preparations take them back to the night they met in a queer commune in Berkeley in radical 1970, when other fires raged through the community, and they
dared to dream of a better future. </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Body" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.cptonline.org/performances/seasons/2023-2024/test-flight-week-4-tales-of-a-fat-man/">WEEK 4: March 28 - 30</a></span></b><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
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<p class="Body" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Tales of a Fat Man<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#222222;background:white">Written by Tyree J. Franklin</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#222222"><br>
<span style="background:white">Directed by Roy Tyrone James II</span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#222222"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#222222;background:white">As you can guess, the play follows the journey of a larger man's past, present, and future of navigating
this world in the body </span></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">he's had since childhood. It's a sort of coming-of-age retelling of the good, bad, & ugly tendencies of society. There's</span></span><span class="textrun"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#222222;background:white"> </span></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#222222;background:white">also </span></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">a
new age Greek style chorus that accompanies and sometimes antagonizes the 'Fat Man' on his journey to Self-love.</span></span><span class="textrun"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> </span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#222222;background:white"> </span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="Body"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">EVERY TICKET is “</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.cptonline.org/box-office/"><b>Choose What You
Pay</b></a></span><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">” starting at $1 and can be purchased
</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">at <a href="https://www.cptonline.org/">
https://www.cptonline.org/</a>or through the CPT Box Office at 216.631.2727 ext. 501<b>. Every Thursday is a Covid-conscious performance where masks are required, and every Friday is Free Bev (as in free beverage) Friday.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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