<div style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12px"><DIV><P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman",serif'>LaBute’s one-man play <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Wrecks</I> opens at Arts Center<?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></B></P><P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style='FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman",serif'><FONT size=3>D&M Productions will present Neil LaBute’s 2005 one-man show <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Wrecks</I> at The Arts Center of the Capital Region, opening September 11. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style='FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman",serif'><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style='FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman",serif'><FONT size=3>Set in a funeral home, <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Wrecks</I> probes the question: can someone honestly love a person whom they have deceived for 35 years? Ed Carr - a loving father, successful businessman, and newly bereaved widower- reflects on his long and happy marriage to his wife, Mary Jo, who has died from cancer. In the course of the play, Ed reveals a jarring deception that originally brought him together with Mary Jo. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style='FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman",serif'><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style='FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman",serif'><FONT size=3>Ed McMullen, the founder of D&M, will play Carr, James Keil, a frequent collaborator with McMullen over the years, is directing <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Wrecks</I>. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style='FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman",serif'><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style='FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman",serif'><FONT size=3>Performance times are September 11 and 18 at 8 p.m. and September 12 and 19 at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. Admission is $15 at the door. For additional information, call 522-7273.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style='FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman",serif'><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style='FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman",serif'><o:p><FONT size=3> <EM><EM></FONT></o:p></SPAN></P></EM></EM></DIV><DIV> </DIV></div>