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<p class="Body" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><img width="475" height="190" style="width:4.9513in;height:1.9791in" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D5F170.B3EE0790" alt="A black sign with white text
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<p class="Body" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The Theatre and Performance Program
</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">presents their</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">winter mainstage</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> production of
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<p class="Body" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="Body" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">UpStart 20</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Body"><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lato-Regular",sans-serif;color:#231F20">The
</span><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lato-Bold",sans-serif;color:#231F20">UpStart
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lato-Regular",sans-serif;color:#231F20">Festival is a one-act play festival produced by the Theatre and Performance program. All three plays are<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lato-Regular",sans-serif;color:#231F20">new works supported by faculty and staff and are written, directed, designed, performed, and led by students, alumni,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lato-Regular",sans-serif;color:#231F20">and visiting artists.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">March 18 - 21</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">, 7:30pm<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="Body"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Running time</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">: 2 hour</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">30</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> minutes</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">(</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">two
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">intermission)</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Body"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Venue</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">: Theatre of the Arts, Modern Languages Building<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"> 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lato-Regular",sans-serif;color:#231F20">The three plays that make up the festival are:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lato-Bold",sans-serif;color:#231F20">Things We Lost in the A</span></b><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lato\,Bold";color:#231F20">f</span></b><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lato-Bold",sans-serif;color:#231F20">termath
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lato-Regular",sans-serif;color:#231F20">written by
</span><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lato-Bold",sans-serif;color:#231F20">Alexis Joy Nagum
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lato-Regular",sans-serif;color:#231F20">and directed by
</span><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lato-Bold",sans-serif;color:#231F20">Mira J. Henderson.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lato-Regular",sans-serif;color:#231F20">Something irrevocably changed one night
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Lato;color:#231F20">at </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lato-Regular",sans-serif;color:#231F20">a cabin by the lake for Zac and his friends. Though Zac’s memory of that night is fragment</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Lato;color:#231F20">e</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lato-Regular",sans-serif;color:#231F20">d,
he knows his childhood friend Marni is the key to a clean resolution. Unbeknownst to him, the tensions that remain unresolved and unspoken in the friend group hinge
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Lato;color:#231F20">upon </span>
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lato-Regular",sans-serif;color:#231F20">the secret she holds. Driven by the need to solve this conflict, the two uncover more to their group than they expected. Pent-up aggression, jealousies, and so many secrets all
come to a head on one depressing memory of that night. In the aftermath of losing our friends, what do we do with these feelings we still have and is anyone ever right to inflict those emotions on each other?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lato-Bold",sans-serif;color:#231F20">Bitter/Sweet Fools
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lato-Regular",sans-serif;color:#231F20">written by
</span><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lato-Bold",sans-serif;color:#231F20">Joanna Cleary
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lato-Regular",sans-serif;color:#231F20">and directed by
</span><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lato-Bold",sans-serif;color:#231F20">Monica Durlak.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lato-Regular",sans-serif;color:#231F20">Set on the last night of Elizabeth I'sreign,
</span><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lato\,Italic";color:#231F20">Bitter/Sweet Fools
</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lato-Regular",sans-serif;color:#231F20">follows a family struggling to forgive each other for the memories they share of a tragic accident. When Agnes visits Tom, her mentally and physically disabled son
outcasted from society because of the part he played in his younger sister Elizabeth's death, she is prepared to make a decision from which she won't be able to recover. However, her resolve begins to waver as Tom earnestly insists he is looking after the
ghost of his sister. Love and shame take turns outweighing one another while the ghost of Elizabeth, chasing a mystical sun, weaves in and out of her past. As all three characters slowly come together to tell the story of their disjointed family, their identities
are shaped in ways that will forever alter them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lato-Regular",sans-serif;color:#231F20"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lato-Bold",sans-serif;color:#231F20">All Art is Quite Useless
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lato-Regular",sans-serif;color:#231F20">with book, music, and lyrics by
</span><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lato-Bold",sans-serif;color:#231F20">Gaya Bin Noon & Cameron Slipp</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lato-Regular",sans-serif;color:#231F20">, directed by
</span><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lato-Bold",sans-serif;color:#231F20">Michael Klein</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lato-Regular",sans-serif;color:#231F20">, and musical direction by
</span><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lato-Bold",sans-serif;color:#231F20">Peter de Sousa</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lato-Regular",sans-serif;color:#231F20">.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lato-Regular",sans-serif;color:#231F20">Based on the original 1890 edition of Oscar Wilde’s
</span><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lato-Italic",sans-serif;color:#231F20">The Picture of Dorian Gray</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lato-Regular",sans-serif;color:#231F20">, this new musical explores the first published
version of a text that was later significantly edited to remove passages deemed “indecent” in nature. The story focuses on the relationship between Basil Hallward, a society painter, and a young aristocrat named Dorian Gray. When Basil presents Dorian with
a painting he has created of him, Dorian despairs that the portrait will stay the same as he ages, and enters into a Faustian bargain to preserve his youth. Basil’s struggle parallels Wilde’s own personal struggle that ended in his arrest, after a series of
trials where the first edition of </span><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lato-Italic",sans-serif;color:#231F20">The Picture of Dorian Gray
</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lato-Regular",sans-serif;color:#231F20">was used against him in court.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lato-Regular",sans-serif;color:#231F20">With three new plays exploring the potent themes of self-identity, forgiveness, and loss, created and staged by some of the region’s
most exciting emerging artists, the UpStart 20 Festival is certain to be an unforgettable evening of theatre.</span><span style="color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> </span><span style="color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Doors will open 30 minutes prior to each performance, with an engagement space in which audience members can explore.</span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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