<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><!--StartFragment--> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Bright"; color:blue"><b>Theater Voices</b></span><span style="font-size:20.0pt; font-family:Futura;color:blue"><b> </b></span><span style="font-size:20.0pt; font-family:"Lucida Bright";color:blue"><b><i>will present its first production of its 2009-2010 season, a staged reading of WIT by Margaret Edson directed by Carol King. <o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Bright"; color:blue"><b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:16.0pt; font-family:"Lucida Bright"">Performances of WIT, a moving drama about a professor facing terminal cancer, will be given at Steamer No. 10 Theatre, 500 Western Avenue in Albany on Friday, October 23 at 8, Saturday October 24 at 3 and 8, and Sunday October 25 at 3. Admission is free.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:16.0pt; font-family:"Lucida Bright""> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:16.0pt; font-family:"Lucida Bright"">Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize, this extraordinary drama focuses on a renowned professor of English who faces a diagnosis of terminal ovarian cancer. For many years, she has devoted herself to rigid analytical study of the metaphysical poetry of John Donne. During her treatment, however, she feels compelled to reassess the quality of both her life and her work, and she does so with humor and compassion. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:16.0pt; font-family:"Lucida Bright""><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:16.0pt; font-family:"Lucida Bright"">WIT remains the only play that Edson has written, and it was inspired at least partly by her work in a cancer and AIDS ward. She is currently a kindergarten teacher in Georgia.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:16.0pt; font-family:"Lucida Bright""><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Bright"">More information at <a href="http://www.theatervoices.org">www.theatervoices.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></div> <!--EndFragment-->
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