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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Adobe Garamond Pro,serif; font-size: 18px;">Troy Civic Theatre</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;">TROY CIVIC THEATRE'S 3RD SEASON BEGINS NEXT WEEK WITH AREA PREMIERE OF “W;T”</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: normal;">Troy's community theatre company's (TCT) third season of staged productions brings Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, “W;T,” to the Black Box Theatre at the Rensselaer County Council on the Arts beginning <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1901636713"><span class="aQJ">next Friday</span></span> night, <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1901636714"><span class="aQJ">January 17</span></span>.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: normal;">W;t is the story of a renowned professor of English who has spent her life studing and teaching the poems of John Donne and now finds herself undergoing ann aggressive treatment of ovarian cancer, and at the same time, a dramatic personal transformation.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: normal;">The play, directed by Barbara Davis-Dickman in her debut with Troy Civic Theatre Company, will be presented at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1901636715"><span class="aQJ">8 pm</span></span> on Januarye17</span><span style="vertical-align: super; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 10px; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: normal;">th</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: normal;">.18</span><span style="vertical-align: super; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 10px; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: normal;">th</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: normal;">, 24th and 25th, with a final matinee <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1901636716"><span class="aQJ">on Sunday</span></span>, the 26</span><span style="vertical-align: super; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 10px; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: normal;">th</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: normal;"> at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1901636717"><span class="aQJ">2 pm</span></span>.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: normal;">Davis-Dickman chose the play because “it's about our need, as human beings, for human contact, for reassurance, support, companionship and love from others – even if we don't think we really need such “crutches,” she said.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: normal;">“This play speaks to all of us,” she said. As the main character transforms from an unapproachable professor to an object of study, the play captures the “universal need all of us have for simple human kindness – to give it as well as to receive it.”</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: normal;">The cast stars Katherine Ambrosio as Dr. Vivian Bearing, and features (in alphabetical order) Anton Asylgareyev,
Kimberely Bassett, Lucy Breyer, Sylvie Browne, Katie Hughes, Mark Kittel and Brian McBride Land.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: normal;">Produced by TCT's Managing Artistic Director Michael J. Ciaravella, assistant director Erin Harwood and stage managed by Carmen Martin, tickets for W;T are available online at <a href="http://www.vendini.com/e/rd.php?id=198155128&cid=92948&link_number=2&u=http%3A%2F%2Fvendini.com%2Fticket-software.html%3Ft%3Dtix%26e%3Dc45a21b38e518a96abb18f3882241dd6" target="_blank">vendini.com/ticket-software.html?t=tix&e=c45a21b38e518a96abb18f3882241dd6</a>, by calling 518-217-TCTC (8282), or at the box office on the date of the performance.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: normal;">Tickets are $15, $13 for Students or Seniors. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: normal;">Information about programs, membership, directorial submissions and auditions are on the company's website, <a href="http://www.vendini.com/e/rd.php?id=198155128&cid=92948&link_number=3&u=http%3A%2F%2Ftroycivic.org" target="_blank">troycivic.org</a>.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Adobe Garamond Pro,serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #ff0000;">Troy Civic Theatre is a not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to promote and advance theatre arts through quality entertainment and education for the cultural enrichment of the Capital District.</span> <br></span></span></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-size:10px; font-family:verdana; width:410px; margin:0 auto;text-align:left;"> <br> Troy Civic Theatre Company uses <a href="http://www.vendini.com" target="_blank">Vendini</a> for ticketing, marketing, and box office management.
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