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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri"><font color="#000000"><b><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:16pt">Press Release</span></b><span><font size="3"> </font></span></font><font color="#000000" size="3">Contact:</font><span><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">Linda Murawski </font><span><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">(</font></font><a href="mailto:Lindam4GPH@gmail.com"><font color="#0000ff" face="Calibri" size="3">Lindam4GPH@gmail.com</font></a><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">)
for</font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri"><font color="#000000"><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:14pt">Date:</span><span><font size="3"> </font></span></font><font color="#000000" size="3">The
Ghent Playhouse</font><span><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">518 392-6264</font></font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri"><span><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">6
Town Hall Place, Ghent, NY</font><span><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">12075</font><font color="#000000"><font size="3"><span> </span><span> </span></font><b><u><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:16pt">FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE</span></u></b></font></font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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GHENT PLAYHOUSE</font></span></b></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">ANNOUNCES
AUDITIONS </font></span></b></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">The
Ghent Playhouse announces auditions for the final production of its 2016-2017 Season,
<i>True West</i></font><font color="#000000">, written by Sam Shepard and
directed by Patrick White.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><u><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">Auditions</font></span></u><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">:<span> </span><span> </span></font><font color="#000000">Monday,
March 20 and Tuesday, March 21, 2017</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></font><font color="#000000">Sign-in
at 7:00 p.m. – Auditions will begin at 7:15 p.m.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;line-height:normal;text-indent:0.5in"><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000"><span> </span><span> </span></font><font color="#000000">THE
GHENT PLAYHOUSE</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></font><font color="#000000">6 Town
Hall Place (Adjacent to the Ghent Firehouse off Route 66),Ghent, New York</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 81pt;line-height:normal"><u><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">Rehearsals</font></span></u><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">: <span> </span></font><font color="#000000">The rehearsal schedule will be based on
the availability of those chosen for the production.</font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">Those interested in auditioning are asked to
be as specific as possible in listing any and all conflicts.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><u><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">Performances:</font></span></u><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000"><span> </span><span> </span></font><font color="#000000">May
19-21, 26-28 and June 2-4, 2017</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></font><font color="#000000">Friday and Saturday evenings at 8:00 p.m.,
Sunday Matinees at 2:00 p.m.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><u><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">Casting
Info</font></span></u><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">:
<span> </span><span> </span></font><font color="#000000">Those
auditioning will be asked to read specific scenes from the script.</font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">Please see the story and </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">character
descriptions below for more information about the play.</font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><u><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">The Story</font></span></u><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">:<span> </span></font><font color="#000000">Sam Shepard’s classic comedy of two estranged
and seemingly different brothers locked into a self-destructive combat.</font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">The two are reunited after five years at
their mother’s home in California, being taken care of by Austin, when the
elder brother, Lee, a petty thief, breaks in hoping to score big robbing homes
in the neighborhood.</font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">When the two are
visited by Saul Kimmer, Austin’s agent, Lee steals his attention, finagling a
deal for his improvised Western, while Lee’s labored-over screenplay is
unceremoniously dropped, thrusting the play into verbal and physical violence
as the two fight for possession and control.</font><span><font color="#000000">
</font></span><font color="#000000">When their mother unexpectedly returns from her Alaskan cruise, she
finds her two sons wasted and at each other’s throats.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">The two
brothers represent the two sides of the American present:<span> </span></font><font color="#000000">one sophisticated, cultured, ambitious and
successful; the other alienated and outcast, raw, wild and violent.</font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">As the play unfolds, the two characters
exchange places and reveal that each is the double of the other.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><u><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><font color="#000000"> </font></span></span></u></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><font color="#000000"><u><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt">The
Characters</span></u><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt">:<span> </span></span></font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">Austin
(20’s) – A “successful” young man with a family and a budding screenwriting
career, house-sitting for his mother, who is away on vacation</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">Lee
(20’s) – A drunk, homeless petty thief, always looking for an angle to make
trouble and perhaps a little cash.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">Saul
Kimmer (30-70) – A Hollywood producer who presents a successful, “with it”
façade.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">Mother
(60’s & up) – Distracted, well-meaning, but too wrapped up in her own
senior plans to be of any use to her two sons.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, YOU MAY CONTACT THE
DIRECTOR THROUGH EMAIL AT </font></span></b><span style="font-size:10pt"><a href="mailto:white.patrick1963@gmail.com"><b><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif""><font color="#0000ff">white.patrick1963@gmail.com</font></span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">.</font></span></b></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail-m_-8001386378159155688gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="4">Linda Murawski, <font size="2">Office Manager & Publicity person</font></font> for The Ghent Playhouse </font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">6 Town Hall Place, Ghent, NY 12075 <a href="tel:(518)%20392-6264" target="_blank" value="+15183926264">(518) 392-6264</a></font></div></div></div></div>
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