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<div class="MsoNormal">The Ghent Playhouse</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">6 Town Hall Place </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Off Route 66</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Ghent, NY 12075</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">Tuesday, April 15 2014</div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>GHENT PLAYHOUSE’S
FINAL PRODUCTION OF THE 2013-14 SEASON<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>“JOHN STEINBECK’S THE GRAPES OF WRATH”<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:CenturySchoolbook"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><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:CenturySchoolbook">The Ghent
Playhouse will present “John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath”, the classic saga
of displaced heartland Americans during the Dust Bowl Depression. Performances
dates are May 23-25, May 30-June 1 and June 6-8. The novel was adapted for the
stage by Frank Galati and the Steppenwolff Theater Company.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This production is being directed
by Joe Phillips. <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:CenturySchoolbook"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><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:"Century Schoolbook";color:#262626">Renowned
first as a novel, and then as a prize-winning motion picture, the story of the
Joad family and their flight from the dust bowl of Oklahoma is familiar to
most. Desperately proud, but reduced to poverty by the loss of their
farm, the Joads pile their few possessions on a battered old truck and head
west for California, hoping to find work and a better life. Led by the
indomitable Ma Joad, who is determined to keep the family together at any cost,
and by the volatile young Tom Joad, an ex-convict who grows increasingly
impatient with the intolerance and exploitation which they encounter on their
trek, the Joads must deal with death and terrible deprivation before reaching
their destination – where their waning hopes are dealt a final blow by the
start realities of the Great Depression. And yet, despite the anguish and
suffering that it depicts, the play becomes in the final essence a soaring and
deeply moving affirmation of the indomitableness of the human spirit, and of
the essential goodness and strength which – then as now – resides in the hearts
and minds of the “common man” throughout the world.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>2014 is the 75<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the publication
of “The Grapes of Wrath.”<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:"Century Schoolbook";color:#262626"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><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:"Century Schoolbook";color:#262626">The
cast is as follows:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Tom Joad
(Kevin Barhydt), Sally McCarthy (Ma Joad), Ken Goldfarb (Pa Joad), Tom Detwiler
(Rev. Jim Casey), Nellie Rustick (RosaSharon), Michael Meier (Connie), Paul
Murphy (Floyd), Sophia Raup (Ruthie Joad), Dana Berntson (Grandpa Joad and Camp
Director), Sam Reilly (Al Joad), Barbara Smith (Grandma Joad), Mark Wilson
(Uncle John), Alex Jones (Noah Joad), Robert Walker (Muley), Margo Phillips
(Elizabeth Sandry), Sally Dodge (Mrs. Wainwright), Christinelee Mackerer
(Aggie) and Ed Countermine – who with many of the players listed above are in
the ensemble.<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:"Century Schoolbook";color:#262626"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><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:"Century Schoolbook";color:#262626">The
production staff are Cathy Lee Visscher (Producer), Brendan Conroy (Set
Designer), Jason Goldman (Lighting Designer), Joanne Maurer (Costume Designer),
Mark Schane-Lydon (Special Effects), Arielle Lant (Assistant to the Director),
and Paul Leyden (Production Stage Manager).</span><span style="font-family:
"Century Schoolbook""><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:"Century Schoolbook""><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><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:CenturySchoolbook"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><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:CenturySchoolbook">The Ghent
Playhouse is located at 6 Town Hall Place – just off Route 66 in the town of
Ghent in Columbia County, New York.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><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:CenturySchoolbook">Performances
are May 23 – June 8, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sunday matinees at 2
p.m.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Tickets are $18 ($15 for
Friends of the Ghent Playhouse) and $10 for students with correct
identification.<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:CenturySchoolbook">Reservations
may be made by calling 1-800-838-3006 or visiting <a href="http://ghentplayhouse.org">ghentplayhouse.org</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
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