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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:115%">Cleveland Public Theatre presents the U.S.A. premiere of
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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:115%"><a href="https://www.cptonline.org/performances/seasons/2023-2024/requiem/">REQUIEM
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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:115%">By Hanoch Levin
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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:115%">Featuring Peter Lawson Jones*<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:center"><a name="_Hlk100678609"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%">March 14 through April 6, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#222222">Written by one of Israel’s most beloved playwrights after a terminal diagnosis, <i>Requiem</i> dares to tackle the big questions of “life and death” with poetry, frankness, and
a lot of humor. One old man embarks on a series of journeys to ward off death failing to see the life all around him amidst the colorful characters he encounters along the way—an old medic, two drunks, three cherubs, and two prostitutes who dream of moving
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#222222">This ground-breaking United States premiere production resets the play in an American landscape and stars Cleveland’s renown actor and activist
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black"><a href="https://www.peterlawsonjones.com/"><b>Peter Lawson Jones</b></a></span><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#222222">*</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#222222"> in the central role.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%">Ensemble:</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#222222;background:white">Hosea Billingsley, Katie Boissoneault, Julia Boudiab, Peter Lawson Jones*, Brooke Lynlee, Colleen
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">McCaughey,
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#222222;background:white">Nnamdi Okpala, Corin B. Self, Kat Shy, Yuval Tal, Venetia Whatley, Eric Wloszek.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#222222">Tickets are Choose What You Pay from $1 to $40 with no handling fees and can be purchased at
<a href="http://www.cptonline.org">www.cptonline.org</a> or 216.631.2727 ext 501.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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