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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">cleveland PUBLIC theatre and cleveland CORE ensemble<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Present<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><a href="https://www.cptonline.org/performances/seasons/2024-2025/golden-flame-invitation/"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Golden Flame Invitation</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">By Raymond Bobgan and Cleveland CORE Ensemble<br>
Directed by Raymond Bobgan<br>
(A World Premiere)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Through June 29, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Audiences will engage in this highly theatrical piece through interactive storytelling from beginning to end making it a great experience for those seeking non-traditional theatre and not to
staying in one spot. To learn more about this new show, hear about it in the words of the show’s Deviser and Cleveland Public Theatre’s Executive Director Raymond Bobgan at the following link to an Instagram video:
<b><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DK2CtEeh69P/"><span style="color:blue">Instagram</span></a></b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">Golden Flame Invitation</span></em><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white"> features fierce physicality, moving acapella
song, and poetry in this engaging spectacle of the heart which seeks to engage with ephemeral topics of dream, contemplation, and our shared humanity. In this “poetic theatre,” conceived by Executive Artistic Director Raymond Bobgan and members of
</span><a href="https://www.cptonline.org/cleveland-core-ensemble/"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;background:white">CORE Ensemble</span></a><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">, stories collide, overlap,
and conjoin. Patrons journey into different parts of the theatre to experience this three-act play.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="normaltextrun"><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">Featuring:
</span></b></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">Hosea Billingsley, Katie Boissoneault, Maddy Cox, Sean Dubois Day, Shakeeb Julien, Brooke Lynlee, Kseniia</span></span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white"> <span class="normaltextrun">Lysiuk,
Martinique Mims, Nnamdi Okpala, Kynnedy, Kat Shy, Yuval Tal, Anastasía Urozhaeva, and Eric Wloszek.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">Ticket Information:</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">To make theatre as accessible as possible, CPT offers a “Choose What You Pay” policy starting at $1 which allows patrons to choose
the price that best suits them with no handling fees!</span></strong><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Tickets may be purchased at
</span><a href="http://www.cptonline.org/"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">www.cptonline.org</span></a><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> or 216.631.2727 x 501
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Also, every
<b>Friday is Free Bev Friday at CPT</b> where patrons and artists can mingle and discuss the performance and enjoy select complimentary beverages!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Golden Flame Invitation</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> in the news!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Cleveland.com:
<a href="https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2025/06/cleveland-public-theatres-golden-flame-invitation-is-sure-to-move-audiences-literally.html">
<span style="color:blue">Cleveland Public Theatre’s ‘Golden Flame Invitation’ is sure to move audiences— literally - cleveland.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Ideastream:
<a href="https://www.ideastream.org/arts-culture/2025-05-29/cleveland-public-theatre-brings-variety-unscripted-shows-to-the-stage-this-season">
<span style="color:blue">Cleveland Public Theatre brings variety, unscripted shows to the stage this season | Ideastream Public Media</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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