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<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Confetti Stage, Inc, Award Winning Theatre Without Limits, is pleased to announce its 39<SUP>th</SUP> production, <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Tennessee William’s classic,<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"> A Streetcar Named Desire,</I></B> directed by Agnes Kapusta.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">A Streetcar Named Desire</I> runs for 4 more performances from Tonight, April 7, 2011 through Sunday, April 10, 2011 at The Albany Masonic Hall in Downtown Albany.</SPAN></div>
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<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><EM><A href="http://www.confettistage.com/2011/04/streetcar-named-desire-metroland/#more-103">Confetti Stage’s A Streetcar Named Desire is a solid production of an interesting take on a classic, with a lead performance well worth your while. - John Rodat, Metroland</A></EM></SPAN></div>
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<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><A href="http://www.confettistage.com/2011/04/street-car-named-desire-times-union/">...a worthy production that shows growth on part the of the troupe. - Michael Eck, Times Union</A></SPAN></div>
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<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><A href="http://www.confettistage.com/2011/04/streetcar-named-desire-recieves-3-tanys-awards/">Awarded the following 3 TANYS Merit Awards:</A></SPAN></div>
<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Outstanding Achievement in Acting to Michelle Smith-Carrigan for her portrayal of Blanche DuBois</SPAN></div>
<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Excellence in Acting to Jennifer Van Iderstyne for her portrayal of Stella Kowalski</SPAN></div>
<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Excellence in Direction to Agnes E. Kapusta Skiff</SPAN></div>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 8pt">Evocative and intense, the emotional undercurrent of <I>A Streetcar Named Desire</I> transcends its setting of 1940’s New Orleans. It reaches out to us, hot, desperate, and vulnerable as we are drawn into a moment in time where the cloud of stunted desire hangs as omnipresent as sensual perfume mingled with smoke and the sharp tinge of alcohol, motionless and brooding, in the stifling heat. It is raw. It is sex and death, sadness and loss, darkness and illusions, but also hope, love and kindness.</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 8pt"> It is a poetic dream that allows us to explore some of the most powerful and universal emotions of the human experience.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The play reveals to the very depths the character of Blanche du Bois, a woman whose life has been undermined by her romantic illusions, which lead her to reject—so far as possible—the realities of life with which she is faced and which she consistently ignores. The pressure brought to bear upon her by her sister, with whom she goes to live in New Orleans, intensified by the earthy and extremely "normal" young husband of the latter, leads to a revelation of her tragic self-delusion and, in the end, to madness.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt">Director: Agnes Kapusta<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt">Stage Manager: Katelyn Ouellette<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt">Production Manager: Erin Harwood<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt">Technical Director: Barry Streifert</SPAN></div>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt"><FONT size=2>Tickets are $12 at <A href="http://www.confettistage.com">www.confettistage.com</A> or $18 through the Confetti Stage Box Office.</FONT></SPAN></div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt"><FONT size=2><o:p>Final 4 performances</o:p></FONT></SPAN></div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt"><FONT size=2><o:p>Thursday, 4/7 @ 8:00pm</o:p></FONT></SPAN></div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt"><FONT size=2><o:p>Friday, 4/8 @ 8:00pm</o:p></FONT></SPAN></div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt"><FONT size=2><o:p>Saturday, 4/9 @ 8:00pm</o:p></FONT></SPAN></div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt"><FONT size=2><o:p>Sunday, 4/10 @ 2:00pm</o:p></FONT></SPAN></div>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt"><FONT size=2><o:p>at the Albany Masonic Hall</o:p></FONT></SPAN></div>
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