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Play Guide - In the Next Room, or the vibrator play
April 12, 2012 by Corey Atkins, Artistic Associate-Engagement in Play Guides
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It’s hard to believe it, but this is the final CPH Play Guide of the 2011-2012 season! We hope that this has been a useful and enjoyable resource, and that you’ve shared it with friends and family, making it a regular part of your theatergoing experience
Sarah Ruhl’s delightful and heartfelt In the Next Room, or the vibrator play is inspired by actual medical science from the 1880s. Just as poisonous mercury was once prescribed as a cure by doctors, the vibrator was initially seen as nothing but an antiseptic medical device. Set in the Victorian... more
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Play Guide - Red
March 15, 2012 by Corey Atkins, Artistic Associate-Engagement in Play Guides
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The CPH Play Guide lets you go deeper into our work, exploring the people, themes and ideas behind every CPH play. Making the Guide a part of your play-going is a great way to enrich your CPH experience!
Legendary American artist Mark Rothko—the subject of Red—once said, “I think of my pictures as dramas.” What a perfect subject , then, for a play! (In this case a Tony Award winning play by an Oscar-nominated writer.)
In this Play Guide, get to know the complicated artist at the center of Red; learn about... more
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Related File: redplayguide.pdf
Play Guide - Radio Golf
February 02, 2012 by Corey Atkins, Artistic Associate-Engagement in Play Guides
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The CPH Play Guide is a new feature this season which gives you a deeper look at the people, themes and ideas behind the play. We hope you’re making the Guide a part of your play-going and that it’s enriching your CPH experience!
Though Radio Golf takes place in 1997 Pittsburgh, it’s no exaggeration to say it could be set in 2012 Cleveland, so relevant is its central question: “Can you build the future without bulldozing the past?”
Learn how Pittsburgh’s Hill District—the setting for more
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Related File: radiogolfplayguide4.pdf
Play Guide - Ten Chimneys
December 27, 2011 by Corey Atkins, Artistic Associate-Engagement in Play Guides
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Jeffrey Hatcher's hilarious and insightful new comedy is, as Artistic Director--and the show's director--Michael Bloom has said, "A valentine to the theatre." Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne were the king and queen of the golden age of Broadway, and Ten Chimneys lets us peek into the fine art of balancing art and life.
This Play Guide will give you some insight on these two legends, as well as their beautiful Wisconsin summer home (Ten Chimneys--from which the play takes its name), and members of their company, Uta Hagen and Sydney Greenstreet, who were both stars in their own right.
We're also very pleased to feature one of... more
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Related File: tenchimneyspgv2.pdf
Play Guide - Ken Ludwig's The Game's Afoot (Or Holmes for the Holidays)
November 10, 2011 by Corey Atkins, Artistic Associate-Engagement in Play Guides
This handy guide gives you all sorts of insight into the real William Gillette, one-of-a-kind protagonist of Ken Ludwig’s The Game’s Afoot, and the surprising ways that he shaped our perceptions of the character Sherlock Holmes (take that, Robert Downey, Jr.!)
Take a peek inside the crazy Connecticut castle that... more
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Related File: gamesafootplayguide2.pdf
Play Guide - Daddy Long Legs
October 24, 2011 by Education and Artistic Departments in Play Guides
This handy guide will go deeper into the events happening during the time of Daddy Long Legs.
Learn about the author of the original novel, Jean Webster, and how she's contributed to the progress of women.
Take a look at how things like text messaging and Twitter are shaping the way we communicate and have expanded the definition of epistolary writing.
Discover what life was like for women during Jerusha's time and read about some remarkable women who've helped shape Cleveland!
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Related Shows: Daddy Long Legs
Related File: daddylonglegsplayguide.pdf
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