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<p class="" style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Lucida Grande';color:rgb(38,38,38)">Marking its twenty-sixth season of
admission free staged readings to the public, Theater Voices announces its
upcoming 2013-2014 slate of plays.</span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Lucida Grande'"> All shows will be presented at Steamer No. 10
Theater, 500 Western Avenue, in Albany.</span></p>
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<p class="" style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Lucida Grande';color:rgb(38,38,38)">RABBIT HOLE by David Lindsay-Abaire</span></p>
<p class="" style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Lucida Grande';color:rgb(38,38,38)">Directed by John Romeo</span></p>
<p class="" style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Lucida Grande';color:rgb(38,38,38)">October 18-20, 2013</span></p>
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<p class="" style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Lucida Grande';color:rgb(38,38,38)"> This lyrical drama tells a story of
loss, heartbreak, and forgiveness—revealed through daily moments and emotional
hurdles—as a family moves on after the accidental death of their four-year-old
son. Laced with wit, insightfulness and compassion, the play won the 2007
Pulitzer Prize for Drama. In his New York Times review, Ben Brantley wrote,
“This anatomy of grief taps a reservoir of feelings common to anyone who has
experienced the vacuum left by a death in the family.” </span></p>
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<p class="" style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Lucida Grande';color:rgb(38,38,38)">ARMS AND THE MAN by George Bernard Shaw</span></p>
<p class="" style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Lucida Grande';color:rgb(38,38,38)">Directed by Eileen Schuyler</span></p>
<p class="" style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Lucida Grande';color:rgb(38,38,38)">February 14-16, 2014</span></p>
<p class="" style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Lucida Grande';color:rgb(38,38,38)"> </span></p>
<p class="" style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Lucida Grande';color:rgb(38,38,38)"> When an exhausted mercenary soldier from
the Serbian army bursts through the window of an idealistic young woman and
demands to hide out in her bedroom, all her cherished notions about the
nobility of love and war get turned upside down. Set in the Serbo-Bulgarian War
of 1885, Shaw’s classic comedy features a dashing military hero, an insolent
and ambitious servant and a host of surprises. The play sparkles with Shaw’s
characteristic wit, as the master takes aim at the folly of war and the
hypocrisies of human nature. </span></p>
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<p class="" style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Lucida Grande';color:rgb(38,38,38)">HEROES by Gerald Sibleyras, translated
by Tom Stoppard</span></p>
<p class="" style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Lucida Grande';color:rgb(38,38,38)">Directed by David Bunce</span></p>
<p class="" style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Lucida Grande';color:rgb(38,38,38)">April 11-13, 2014</span></p>
<p class="" style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Lucida Grande';color:rgb(38,38,38)"> </span></p>
<p class="" style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Lucida Grande';color:rgb(38,38,38)"> Set in 1959 Paris in an old soldiers’
home, three veterans of World War I spend their days together—fiercely guarding
against interlopers as they must have on the front—bickering, grousing about
the staff, dreaming of comely women, and fantasizing about escape. A perfect
combination of dry humor, Stoppard’s pithy wordplay, heartbreaking dreams and
genuine wisdom lures us into the men’s lives as we re-examine our own. Winner
of the Lawrence Olivier Best New Comedy Award.</span></p>
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<p class="" style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Lucida Grande';color:rgb(38,38,38)">A LESSON BEFORE DYING by Romulus Linney</span></p>
<p class="" style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Lucida Grande';color:rgb(38,38,38)">Directed by Margaret Hall</span></p>
<p class="" style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Lucida Grande';color:rgb(38,38,38)">May 16-18, 2014</span></p>
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<p class="" style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Lucida Grande';color:rgb(38,38,38)"> Based on Ernest J. Gaines' award-winning
novel, this captivating play is an elegant but harsh illumination of the search
for grace and dignity before an innocent black man is put to death. Set in
backwoods Louisiana in 1948, it brings together a discouraged young teacher and
a prisoner who has lost all hope. Together, they find the courage to hold onto
their common humanity in the face of prejudice. “The story's wrenching power
lies not in its outrage but in the almost inexplicable grace the characters
must muster as their only resistance to being treated like lesser beings."
—The New Yorker</span></p>
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