<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:justify;mso-pagination: none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 36.0pt;font-family:MarkerFelt-Wide;color:#0019FF">Theater Voices</span><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:MarkerFelt-Wide;color:#0019FF"> will present the 2ND production of its 2010-2011 season, a staged reading of TRYING</span><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:MarkerFelt-Wide;color:#0011FF"> </span><span style="font-size:24.0pt;font-family:MarkerFelt-Wide;color:#0011FF">by </span><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:MarkerFelt-Wide;color:#0011FF">Joanna McClelland Glass directed by Carol Charniga. </span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:justify;mso-pagination: none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 17.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:black">Performances will be given at Steamer No. 10 Theatre, 500 Western Avenue in Albany on Friday, October 15 at 8, Saturday October 16 at 3 and 8, and Sunday October 17 at 3. Admission is free.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in;text-align:justify"><b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></b><span style="font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande"">This bittersweet play is set in 1967 when Francis Biddle—Attorney General under FDR and Chief Judge of the Nuremberg trials—is 81 years old and struggling defiantly with age and failing health. His wife has forced upon him a new secretary, Sarah—all of 25 years old—and the two try to find a way to communicate. These two strangers, at dramatically different places in their lives, influence one another in touching and unexpected ways. <i>Trying </i></span><span style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande"">is based upon Glass’ own experience as Biddle’s personal secretary</span>.<u><o:p></o:p></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in;text-align:justify;text-indent: .25in"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Grande""><u> </u></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; "> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-left:.75in;text-align:center"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:Helvetica; color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black">More information at <a href="http://www.theatervoices.org/"><span style="color:#0010F3">www.theatervoices.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <!--EndFragment-->
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