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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="font-size:16pt">Press Release</span></b><font size="3"><span> </span>Contact:<span> </span>Linda Murawski<span> </span></font></font></font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:14pt">Date:</span><font size="3"><span> </span>April 6, 2015<span> </span>The
Ghent Playhouse<span> </span>518 392-6264</font></font></font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><font color="#000000" size="3">THE GHENT PLAYHOUSE PRESENTS THE FINAL
PRODUCTION OF THE 2014 -2015 SEASON, “<i>RABBIT
HOLE</i>” </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font size="3">The Ghent
Playhouse is pleased to announce its production of David Lindsay-Abaire’s
Pulitzer Prize winning play, <i>Rabbit Hole</i>.<span> </span>The play will open on Friday, May 22 and run
through Sunday, June 7 with performances Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm and
Sundays at 2 pm.<span> </span></font></font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font color="#000000"><font size="3"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Rabbit Hole</span></i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">, a drama infused with moments of humor
and glimpses of hope, charts the Corbett’s bittersweet search for comfort
following a family tragedy and a path that will lead them back to finding one
another and into the light of day. </span></font></font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font size="3">Tamara Gardner
of Lee, Massachusetts is a newcomer to the Ghent stage and takes on the role of
Becca Corbett, half of a couple whose perfect world is suddenly turned upside
down after a life-shattering accident leaves the two drifting perilously
apart.<span> </span>Tamara made her acting debut last
year in Town Players of Pittsfield’s production of <i>Months on End </i>and soon after was cast in Mill City’s production of <i>Cinderella Goes Disco</i>.<span> </span></font></font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><font color="#000000" size="3">Jonathan Slocum
of Pittsfield, Massachusetts plays her husband, Howie Corbett, a man struggling
to find a way to move on after tragedy.<span>
</span>Jonathan has appeared on the Playhouse stage previously in <i>Enchanted April</i> and <i>The Heiress</i>.<span> </span>Jonathan has
produced and directed for Town Players of Pittsfield and has performed in over
a dozen productions in the past decade.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><font color="#000000" size="3">Hana Kenny is
cast as Becca’s pregnant and free-spirited sister, Izzy.<span> </span>Hana is an actor, singer and artist from
Great Barrington, Massachusetts.<span> </span><span> </span>This is her first time at the Ghent Playhouse,
but Hana is active with Homespun Theatre Company in Great Barrington and
Pittsfield Shakespeare in the Park.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font size="3">Lael Locke of
Chatham, New York is Nat, Becca and Izzy’s mother, a strong woman already surviving
loss when this tragedy occurred. This is the third mother that Lael has played in
her 12 appearances on the Ghent stage including roles in <span> </span><i>Equus</i>,
<i>The Countess</i> and <i>The Mad Woman of Chaillot</i>.<span> </span>Lael
has been active with the Town Players of Pittsfield, the MacHaydn Theatre, The
Berkshire Playhouse and others.<span> </span></font></font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font size="3">The role of
Jason, the young man involved in the accident that changed the lives of our
characters forever is being played by Thomas Reilly of Pittsfield, Massachusetts.<span> </span>A 17 year old in the wrong place at the wrong
time who will spend his life dealing with the gravity of that one moment.<span> </span></font></font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><font color="#000000" size="3">John Trainor of
New Lebanon, New York, who was last seen in GPH’s 2015 production of <i>Heroes,</i> steps off the Ghent stage and
into the Director’s chair for this production.<span>
</span>His previous directorial credits at the Playhouse include <i>Crimes of the Heart</i>, <i>Man of La Mancha, The Road to Mecca</i>, <i>The Good Doctor</i>, <i>Proof</i>, and <i>Dancing at
Lughnasa</i>.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><font color="#000000" size="3">This production
is being produced by GPH Board President Nancy Hammell.<span> </span>The set is designed by GPH Artistic Director
Cathy Lee-Visscher.<span> </span>Lighting design is
by John Collins and sound design by Monk Shane-Lydon.<span> </span>Joanne Maurer is the costume designer.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><font color="#000000" size="3">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> </span>Tickets
are $20 each, $17 for Friends of the Playhouse and $10 for Students with ID.<span> </span>Tickets may be reserved by calling
1-800-838-3006 or going to the website at </font><a href="http://www.ghentplayhouse.org/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3">www.ghentplayhouse.org</font></a><font color="#000000" size="3">.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">Tamara Gardner & Jonathan Slocum<span> </span>Rabbit Hole GPH 2014-15</font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">Photo by Dan Region</font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="4">Linda Murawski</font> for The Ghent Playhouse 6 Town Hall Place, Ghent, NY 12075 (518) 392-6264</font></div></div>
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