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<div style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;"><font color="#595959"><b>Press Release: “Fifth of July” by Lanford Wilson </b></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;"><font color="#595959"><b>November 10th-19th at UAlbany<br>
A veteran’s redemption, seen through the prism of the Vietnam War.<br>
This production is paired with an exhibition of photographs of returning veterans from<br>
the current war, from the book “War is Personal” by Eugene Richards.</b></font></div>
<div style="margin-bottom:15pt;"><font face="Cambria" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Great playwriting encompasses timeless themes. Lanford Wilson’s Broadway hit “Fifth of July” examined the plight of a returning veteran through the prism of the Vietnam
War. But with the current returning veterans’ unemployment far outweighing the national average of the jobless, and more veterans surviving war with severe injuries, this play has never been more relevant than to this generation.</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-bottom:15pt;"><font face="Cambria" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">UAlbany honors the memory of Lanford Wilson, who died last spring, with a revival of “Fifth of July,” one of a trilogy of plays centering on the Tally family in Lebanon,
Missouri. Wilson has often been regarded as the American Chekhov, writing comedic scenes with powerful underlying themes. While the audience can laugh at some of the silliness of the generation of the seventies, they will not be able to ignore the struggle
of the main character to come to terms with his life, which has been gravely altered by his injuries and memories of war.</span></font></div>
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