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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:2.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;text-indent:.35pt'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>WHAT:</span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'> <i>Virtual Staged Readings Series</i> presented by The Two Of Us Productions, the award winning theater company based in Columbia County NY, in collaboration with The Copake Grange:</span><span style='font-size:16.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoBodyText style='margin-bottom:4.0pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>In <b><i>BROKEN GLASS</i></b> <i>Sylvia Gellberg</i> watches the increasingly violent events in Germany and Eastern Europe unfold through the Summer and Fall of 1938. The vivid pictures and lurid accounts in the newspapers of the day bring to life for <i>Sylvia </i> the traumas and horrors being experienced by those targeted by the facist violence and fearmongering. Like today’s anxious citizens, <i>Sylvia</i> feels as if she is there. Her inability to influence events become manifest </span><b><u><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#0070C0'>when she develops an inability to walk. <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class=MsoBodyText style='mso-margin-top-alt:2.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-indent:-4.5pt'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>WHEN: <i>BROKEN GLASS, </i></span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>a drama by Arthur Miller. Saturday August 22<sup>nd</sup>, 2020 at 7:30pm. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:2.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;text-indent:.35pt'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>HOW:</span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'> This show, the 10<sup>th</sup> in our series, will be presented using ZOOM on-line videoconferencing. Please go to </span><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><a href="http://www.TheTwoOfUsProductions.org">www.TheTwoOfUsProductions.org</a></span></span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'> for information and to send us your RSVP. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:2.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;text-indent:.35pt'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>TICKETS:</span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'> This performance is free to the public, donations are gratefully accepted. For more information & RSVP please visit <span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='color:black'><a href="http://www.TheTwoOfUsProductions.org"><span style='color:black'>www.TheTwoOfUsProductions.org</span></a></span></span> or call 518-329-6293. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><h1><o:p> </o:p></h1><h1 align=left style='text-align:left'> “… a tense & timely drama comes to Copake <o:p></o:p></h1><h1 align=left style='text-align:left'> with The Two Of Us Productions! ”<o:p></o:p></h1><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoBodyText style='margin-bottom:4.0pt'><span style='color:black'>COPAKE, NY --The Two Of Us Productions, the award winning theater company based in Columbia County NY, is pleased to present <b><i>BROKEN GLASS </i></b>by<i> Arthur Miller </i>on Saturday evening August 22<sup>nd</sup> 2020 as Virtual On-Line staged reading starting at 7:30 pm. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoBodyText style='margin-bottom:4.0pt'><span style='color:black'>Arthur Miller’s <b><i>BROKEN GLASS</i></b> is a thought provoking exploration of failed relationships brought into focus by the events of November 1938 and the “Night of Broken Glass” in Nazi Germany. Today’s soldiers and their families have a direct connection between daily life and deployments close to home as well as thousands of miles away. Families and individuals with ties to these troubled communities & foreign lands scan the news daily, anxiously looking for information about their loved ones. So it was, especially for recent European immigrants, in the months leading up to World War II. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoBodyText style='margin-bottom:4.0pt'><span style='color:black'>In <b><i>BROKEN GLASS</i></b> <i>Sylvia Gellberg</i>, shares this anxiety. She watches the increasingly violent events in Germany and Eastern Europe unfold through the summer and fall of 1938. The vivid pictures and lurid accounts in the newspapers of the day bring to life for <i>Sylvia</i> the traumas and horrors being experienced by those targeted by the fascist violence and fear mongering. Like today’s anxious citizens, <i>Sylvia</i> feels as if she is there. Her inability to influence events become manifest when she develops an inability to walk. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoBodyText style='margin-bottom:4.0pt'><span style='color:black'>But, her inability to walk is actually the tip of the iceberg. <i>Sylvia’s</i> husband <i>Phillip Gellberg</i> discusses <i>Sylvia’s</i> condition with the family physician <i>Harry Hyman</i>. We learn more as <i>Harry</i> discusses <i>Sylvia</i> and <i>Phillip’s</i> tangled problems with his wife <i>Margaret</i>, and as <i>Sylvia</i> confides in her sister <i>Harriet</i>. The drama takes an unexpected turn when <i>Phillip</i> is suddenly confronted with his own mortality and the shocking bigotry of his long-time employer, <i>Mr. Case</i>. </span><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#2E74B5'>We have a front row seat as <i>Harry</i> desperately probes for the key to helping <i>Sylvia</i> walk again.</span></b><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoBodyText style='margin-bottom:4.0pt'><span style='color:black'>To learn the rest of the story you’ll have to RSVP to us at </span><span class=MsoHyperlink><a href="http://www.TheTwoOfUsProductions.org">www.TheTwoOfUsProductions.org</a></span><span style='color:black'> and see it all for yourself. </span><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#2E74B5'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoBodyText style='margin-bottom:4.0pt'><b><i><span style='color:black'>BROKEN GLASS </span></i></b><span style='color:black'>will be performed as a virtual staged reading on Saturday August 22<sup>nd</sup>, 2020 at 7:30pm. This performance is <u>free</u> to the public, donations are gratefully accepted. To RSVP for your reservation please visit <span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='color:black'><a href="http://www.TheTwoOfUsProductions.org"><span style='color:black'>www.TheTwoOfUsProductions.org</span></a></span></span> or call 518-329-6293. The Two Of Us Productions is well known throughout the Hudson Valley for presenting quality theater, both musicals and dramas. Their recent productions of <i>Sweeney Todd, Young Frankenstein, Chicago, Les Miserables, next to normal, Deathtrap, Lend Me A Tenor </i>and <i>Jesus Christ Superstar</i> were all recognized by the Theatre Association of NYS with multiple awards, including <i>outstanding work by the company</i> & <i>outstanding performance by the orchestra</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>