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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Cleveland Public Theatre<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Presents the Final Two Weeks of<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><a href="https://www.cptonline.org/performances/seasons/2023-2024/category/series/test-flight/"><span style="color:#0563C1">TEST FLIGHT 2024</span></a></span></b><u><span style="color:#0563C1;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Through – March 30, 2024</span></b><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Featuring workshop productions by Northeast Ohio artists as part of CPT’s New Play Development Program<i>.</i> 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="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><a href="https://www.cptonline.org/performances/seasons/2023-2024/test-flight-week-3-how-to-live-in-a-house-on-fire/"><span style="color:#0563C1">WEEK
3: March 21-23 </span></a></span></b><b><u><span style="color:#0563C1;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">How to Live in a House on Fire<br>
</span></i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Written and directed by Kari Barclay</span><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#222222;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">It’s 2020 in Berkeley, California, and wildfires are raging. </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><a href="https://www.cptonline.org/performances/seasons/2023-2024/test-flight-week-4-tales-of-a-fat-man/"><span style="color:#0563C1">WEEK
4: March 28 - 30</span></a></span></b><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#0563C1;mso-ligatures:none">
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Tales of a Fat Man<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#222222;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">Written by Tyree J. Franklin</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#222222;mso-ligatures:none"><br>
<span style="background:white">Directed by Roy Tyrone James II</span></span><span style="color:#222222;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#222222;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">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 style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">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 style="color:#222222;background:white"> also </span>a new age Greek style chorus that accompanies and sometimes antagonizes the 'Fat Man' on
his journey to Self-love. <span style="color:#222222;background:white"> </span><span style="background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">EVERY TICKET is “</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><a href="https://www.cptonline.org/box-office/"><b><span style="color:#0563C1">Choose What You
Pay</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">” starting at $1 and can be purchased
</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">at <a href="https://www.cptonline.org/">
<span style="color:#0563C1">https://www.cptonline.org/</span></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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