<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'"><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Spotlight Players Community Theater announces a play reading of <I>Web</I>, an original work by Brendan McDermott and Peter Tyger. The reading will take place <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1228636558_0 style="BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed">December 15th at 7 pm</SPAN> at Quigley's, in <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1228636558_1 style="CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed">East Greenbush</SPAN>.</FONT></SPAN>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'"><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><EM>Web</EM> is a dark adaptation of <I><SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1228636558_2 style="BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none">Charlotte's Web</SPAN></I> that has been described by reviewers as the type of spin on an old classic as <I>Wicked</I> is to the <I><SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1228636558_3>Wizard of Oz</SPAN></I>. It takes the events of <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1228636558_4>E.B. White</SPAN>'s classic book <I>Charlotte's Web</I> and puts them in a real life setting, while honoring the foundations and lessons that the book teaches to children-- friendship, sacrifice and, understanding and <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1228636558_5 style="BACKGROUND: none transparent
scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none">coping with death</SPAN>. It re-introduces these themes to an adult audience. The story is based loosely on the <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1228636558_6>Susan Smith trial</SPAN> in 1995. Susan Smith was convicted of murdering her two young children, and the play draws on this story, as well as other real world cases of mothers accused of infanticide. It ponders how in so many of these cases people are drawn to believe the worst in people and how there is little empathy for a mother is the accused of killing her child. It focuses on how in many of these cases people are disinclined to be compassionate or understanding, when all logic points to a verdict of guilt.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'"><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">This play was written by Brendan McDermott in April of 2005 , who proposed to direct <I>Charlote's Web</I> to a student run production company at <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1228636558_7>Syracuse University</SPAN>. Instead, the President of the company amended the selection and encouraged McDermott to do an original dark adaptation of <I>Charlotte's Web</I>. The show took an interesting path as it was first cast , then contracted a with a tech crew-- and then written. Deceased local <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1228636558_8>Playwright</SPAN> Peter Tyger joined the creative process, and this reading represents the first local production of his last creative work. The play was written in the summer of 2005, and had a student run production November 2005 at
Syracuse University. It will be produced at the Crystal Theater in Missoula Montana as part of their 2009 season, and presented in a festival in <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1228636558_9>London</SPAN>.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'"><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Brendan McDermott is a graduate of <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1228636558_10 style="CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed">Columbia High School</SPAN> in East Greenbush and a recent graduate of Syracuse University. He is currently touring with The Missoula Childen's Theater. Peter Tyger was an award winning local playwright, composer and actor, who created <I>American Dream, <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1228636558_11>Nellie Bly</SPAN> and Clinton's Ditch</I>, all produced locally. This reading serves as memorial to his considerable talents.</FONT></SPAN></P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'">
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><BR><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Quigley's will be serving food and libation prior to the performance and patrons are invited to bring drinks into the performance. Quigley's is located at <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1228636558_12 style="CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed">593 Columbia Tpke, East Greenbush, NY</SPAN>. Tel: <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1228636558_13 style="CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed">518-477-2495</SPAN>. </FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Come join us for a FREE evening of entertainment that gives you a break from the hectic pace of the holidays and provides you with a thought provoking and entertaining evening of theater by one of our own local talents and featuring some of the finest actors in the Capital District.. Did I mention it is FREE?</FONT></P>
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