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<b><span style="font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.cptonline.org/performances/seasons/2024-2025/the-body-play/"><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#467886">The Body Play
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<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>
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<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>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Through April 13, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"> </span><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">“…a creative, devastatingly
accurate show depicting what it’s like to live with chronic illness.” </span></i><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">“[The Body Play] accurately portrays the exhaustion, frustration, angst, guilt and moments of hope that those of us with chronic, invisible illnesses
experience on a daily basis. Cleveland Public Theatre’s world premiere production is a fine example of how theater can act as an emotional and
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<i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">intimate vehicle in which we can explore unique versions of the human experience.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">—<b>Cleveland Scene<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">“</span></i><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#404040;background:white">Wetzell’s post-COVID
play speaks volumes in 2025…”</span></i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#404040;background:white">—<b>Dr. Yuko Kurahashi</b></span><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:ideograph-other"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">Join us as we kick off the final week of performances of
<i>The Body Play</i> tonight <b>Mon., April 7 with a discussion on Arts & Health</b> with panelists including Linda Jackson, Director, </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.metrohealth.org/patients-and-visitors/office-of-patient-experience/center-for-arts-in-health"><span style="color:#777777;background:white">Center
for Arts in Health at MetroHealth</span></a><span style="color:#222222;background:white">; Dr. Nora Singer, Division Director of Rheumatology, MetroHealth; and Paige Conway, CPT Associate Producer & director of <i>The Body Play</i>.
<u>Ticket purchases to these performances are required.</u> </span><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222">About the Play<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;text-autospace:ideograph-other"><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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<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><b><span style="color:#222222;text-transform:uppercase"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:ideograph-other"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Audiences are Loving
<i>The Body Play</i>:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:ideograph-other"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">IG:
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DH_bswkIRpf/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==">
<span style="color:#467886">Testimonials</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:ideograph-other"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"> FB:
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1C7ZMEFKSz/"><span style="color:#467886">Testimonials</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:ideograph-other"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Click
<a href="https://www.cptonline.org/performances/seasons/2024-2025/the-body-play/">
here</a> for tickets and info. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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