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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Visionaries-<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>Below is a press release about an upcoming fundraiser for
the Moscow Volunteer Fire Department, a staged reading of <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>The Guys</span></i> by Anne Nelson, presented by <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Sirius Idaho Theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>Full details are contained in the press release below. We are
enthusiastic about this play and want to share this news with you and those
with whom you communicate.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>John Dickinson<br>
Chair, Board of Directors<br>
<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Sirius Idaho Theatre<br>
</span></i>Moscow, Idaho<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;font-weight:bold'>For immediate release</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> -
September 28, 2005<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>Contact: John Dickinson, Chair, Board of Directors, <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Sirius Idaho Theatre</span></i><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><u><font size=2 color=blue face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:blue'>johnd@moscow.com</span></font></u><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> or
208-301-4361<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'><a href="http://www.SiriusIdahoTheatre.com/">www.SiriusIdahoTheatre.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;font-style:italic'>Sirius Idaho Theatre</span></font></i><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> (SIT)
announces a staged reading of <b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:
italic'>The Guys</span></i></b> as a fundraiser for the Moscow Volunteer Fire
Department. Performances of <i><span style='font-style:italic'>The Guys</span></i>,
by Anne Nelson, SIT’s second production of their 2005-06 season, take
place at 7:30 pm on Friday and Saturday, October 14 & 15, 2005, at the
Downtown Moscow Fire Station (603 S. Main St., Moscow, Idaho). Directed by Pam
Palmer, SIT’s Managing Artistic Director, <i><span style='font-style:
italic'>The Guys</span></i> features Kelly Quinnett as Joan and Peter Aylward
as Nick. Quinnett, Associate Professor of Theatre at the University of Idaho,
previously worked with Palmer during the 2004 production of <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Proof</span></i>. Aylward, a professional actor
living on the Palouse, starred as Pato in SIT’s first play of the season,
<i><span style='font-style:italic'>The Beauty Queen of Leenane</span></i>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>Ticket prices for <i><span style='font-style:italic'>The
Guys</span></i> are $20 each, with all proceeds benefiting the volunteer
firefighters. Advance tickets can be purchased at BookPeople of Moscow (521 S.
Main St., Moscow, Idaho) and at Moscow Fire Station #3 (229 Pintail Lane,
Moscow, Idaho). Tickets are also available through the mail by contacting John
Dickinson, Chair of SIT’s Board of Directors, (<u><font color=blue><span
style='color:blue'>johnd@moscow.com</span></font></u>, 208-301-4361).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;font-style:italic'>"A generous, sad, touching play
about the braveries of grief." </span></font></i><font size=2
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>—NY Post<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;font-style:italic'>"[A] straight-from-the-gut
beautifully written two-hander…laughter is heard as often as sobs." </span></font></i><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>—CurtainUp.com<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;font-style:italic'>"Ms. Nelson's play…gives
credible and powerful voice to a very specific kind of pain…perhaps the
keenest message to emerge from THE GUYS is the assertion that writers—and
actors—have a serious role to play in a grieving society."</span></font></i><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>
—NY Times <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>THE STORY: Less than two weeks after the September 11th attacks,
New Yorkers are still in shock. One of them, an editor named Joan, receives an
unexpected phone call on behalf of Nick, a fire captain who has lost most of
his men in the attack. He's looking for a writer to help him with the eulogies
he must present at their memorial services. Nick and Joan spend a long
afternoon together, recalling the fallen men through recounting their virtues
and their foibles, and fashioning the stories into memorials of words. In the
process, Nick and Joan discover the possibilities of friendship in each other
and their shared love for the unconquerable spirit of the city. As they make
their way through the emotional landscape of grief, they draw on humor, tango,
the appreciation of craft in all its forms—and the enduring bonds of
common humanity. THE GUYS is based on a true story. (Dramatists Play Service)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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