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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:center"><a href="https://www.cptonline.org/"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">cleveland PUBLIC theatre</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="https://www.cptonline.org/performances/seasons/2024-2025/the-body-play/"><i>The Body Play
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">By Madison Wetzell</span></b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0in;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Directed by Paige Conway<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<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%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">March 28 through April 13, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Cleveland Public Theatre (CPT) presents the world premiere of
<i>The Body Play</i> by Madison Wetzell. The play won and/or was a finalist for several awards across the country including a Jane Chambers Award and Bay Area Playwrights Festival. It also won an award from The Bechdel Group New Play Development Reading Series
where it was commended for </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">“physical comedy, verbal dexterity (via tour-de-force monologues and one-liners, alike) as well as its implicit social critiques (that we are
living in contexts that damage our bodies, relationships and world)…. the play’s irreverent subjectivity and feminist instincts, its queer lenses on mind/body dualism, and hilarious critiques of the medical industrial complex, as well as wellness cultures navigated
by a complex self.” They further described the play as “quirky and exponentially relatable…”
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222">Description:</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222"> Amy, and Amy's body, take us through a physically comedic journey through
chronic illness, unresponsive medical personnel, and an unstable healthcare system while questioning the absurdity of being embodied and what it might mean to be a body.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Featuring:</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">
<span style="color:#222222;background:white">Day Ash, Andrea de la Fuente, Kelly Dunn, Rachel Gold, Erin K. Moran</span></span><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222;text-transform:uppercase"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222;text-transform:uppercase">THE CREATIVE PRODUCTION TEAM INCLUDES:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">Director & Line Producer:</span></strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white"> Paige Conway</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222">|<strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;background:white">Stage
Manager: </span></strong><span style="background:white">Kate Beckley<b>| <strong>
<span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Scenic Design: </span></strong></b>Ezra August Bender<b>|
<strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Lighting Design:</span></strong></b> Sierra Smith</span>|
<strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;background:white">Costume Design:</span></strong><span style="background:white"> Amanda Rowe-Van Allen</span>|<strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;background:white">Sound Design:</span></strong><span style="background:white"> Angie
Hayes</span></span><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222;text-transform:uppercase"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222">Opening Night (March 29)– </span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222">Ticket includes free admission to the post-show opening party
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222">Free Bev Friday – </span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222">Every Friday night at CPT is Free Bev Friday when a selection of beverages
is complimentary. Hot beverages like coffee and tea are always complimentary at CPT performances.
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222">Covid-Conscious Sunday Performances (March 30, April 6 & April 13)</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222"> € KN95, N95 or surgical
masks are required by all audience members for these performances. </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://www.cptonline.org/plan-your-visit/">Click here</a></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"> for
COVID-19 Safety Protocols.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Ticket And Show Information</span></u></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><br>
</span><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Tickets for<i> The Body Play
</i></span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">can be purchased</span><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">
</span></i></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">through the theatre’s Choose-What-You-Pay policy at
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><a href="http://www.cptonline.org">www.cptonline.org</a></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> and range from $1 to $80
with no handling fees. </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_Hlk93062300"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><img border="0" width="28" height="35" style="width:.2916in;height:.3611in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01DB8D32.AEAC72E0" alt="Icon
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Public Theatre’s Gordon Square Theatre is ADA-compliant featuring a patron elevator and an all-gender, wheelchair accessible restroom.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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