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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,34,35)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>From: <span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></b>Maya TerryStein, Executive Producer, Ad Astra Theatre Troupe, Ltd.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,34,35)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>Contact:</b><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> <a href="mailto:adastratroupe@gmail.com"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)">adastratroupe@gmail.com</span></a> (518) 937- 6463</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,34,35);min-height:15px"><i><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span>Triangle </i>by Laurie Brooks</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,34,35)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>WHAT</b></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,34,35)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Coming this spring, Ad Astra Theatre Troupe, a student run theatre group, presents it’s fourth season main stage play, <i>Triangle</i> by Laurie Brooks. </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,34,35)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">There is no fee to participate. There will be opportunities for students to perform on stage, as well as working behind the scenes.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,34,35)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Set against the backdrop of the historic Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911, this stylistically thrilling play explores the immigrant experience then and now through the tragedy of the “fire that changed America.” Sophie, a 16 year old seamstress who died in the fire, haunts Malena, a modern Hispanic girl in conflict with her sister, Isabel. Sophie is filled with guilt because she did not save her sister, Rose, from the fire and now cannot find her. When Sophie, along with the ghosts of other dead factory girls, appears to her, Malena encourages Sophie to tell her story, never imagining they will all be transported back in time to relive the tale. An ensemble of actors portrays the ghosts of those who died in the fire and seamlessly takes on individual roles in Sophie’s story. In this tale of regret, responsibility, and forgiveness, Sophie reveals her terrible secret and finds peace while helping Malena see her sister in a new light. </span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,34,35)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>WHEN</b></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,34,35)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Auditions – 3:00-6:00pm, February 1st</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,34,35)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Callbacks – 3:00-6:00pm, February 8th</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,34,35)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Rehearsals will take place most Saturdays and Sundays from 3pm to 6pm starting March at the Bloom Movement Studio in Saratoga Springs. </span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,34,35)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>WHERE</b></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,34,35)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bloom: A Movement Studio, Suite 1000, 153 Regent Street, Saratoga Springs, NY</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,34,35)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>WHAT TO EXPECT</b></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,34,35)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Please register by sending an email to <a href="mailto:adastratroupe@gmail.com"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)">adastratroupe@gmail.com</span></a> before February 1st. After we receive your registration, we’ll send you an audition packet that includes a form to help us get to know you a bit better, a plot summary, and the character descriptions. You will be asked to prepare a contemporary monologue of your choosing to perform at auditions.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,34,35)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">This is Ad Astra Theatre Troupe’s fourth season. For more information, please visit our web site <a href="http://www.adastratroupe.org"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)">www.adastratroupe.org</span></a>. </span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,34,35)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>WHO ARE WE</b></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,34,35)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Ad Astra Theatre Troupe is a non-profit student-run performance company focusing on spreading education, confidence, and a sense of community through the arts. We come from all parts of the Capitol District, from Albany to Glens Falls. We’re unique because of our aim to enable local high-school students through all forms of theatrical development, with new opportunities in direction, production, choreography, technical direction, publicity, play writing, and stage management, with little to no cost to families. </span></p></div></div>