<html><body><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;page-break-after:avoid;mso-outline-level:1"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">RIPCORD, a</span></b><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">“Comedy with heart”,</span></b><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"">SCHENECTADY<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"> –</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">RIPCORD<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">, “</i></b>a<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"> </i></b></span><span class="color11"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%">Golden Girls meets Odd Couple comedy with heart”</span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></i></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-style:italic">by David Lindsay-Abaire, and directed by Sara Paupini<b>,<i> </i></b>will</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
be presented as a staged reading Sunday, November 4, at 2:30 p.m. at
the Schenectady Civic Playhouse, 12 So. Church Street, in Schenectady’s
historic Stockade district.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>One performance only, it is part of a special series celebrating Schenectady Civic Players’ 91st season.</span></p>
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sunny room on an upper floor is prime real estate in the Bristol Place
Senior Living Facility, so when the cantankerous Abby is forced to share
her quarters with new-arrival Marilyn, she has no choice but to get rid
of the infuriatingly chipper woman by any means necessary. A seemingly
harmless bet between the old women quickly escalates into a dangerous
game of one-upmanship that reveals not just the tenacity of these worthy
opponents, but also deeper truths that each would rather remain hidden.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:18.6pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>“David Lindsay-Abaire’s tastily sweet-and-sour <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Ripcord</b> is great fun!...Solidly crafted larded with moments of surprise, both wacky and more substantial.”.—<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Time Out (New York)</i></span></p>
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