[NEohioPAL] Great Lakes Theater Festival FREE performance at LCCC This Wednesday!

[Jeremy Benjamin <jbenjami@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: Great Lakes Theater Festival FREE performance at LCCC This Wednesday!

On this Wednesday, March 19 at 7:30pm, Lorain County Community College’s Department of Theatre proudly hosts the Great Lakes Theater Festival’s SEEING RED in its Stocker Arts Center’s Studio Theatre.

FREE, and open to the public, SEEING RED dramatizes actual testimony of Ronald Regan, Hallie Flanagan, Paul Robeson and Arthur Miller before the United States House Committee on Un-American Activities, formed in 1934 to “investigate Nazi propaganda and certain other propaganda activities.”  Abolished in 1975, this Committee subpoenaed American citizens to appear and testify before it, and pressured them to name names of purported communists, under threat of “blacklisting.”  
 
SEEING RED, written by GLTF Director of Education Daniel Hahn and directed by GLTF Associate Artistic Director, Andrew May, explores the question of, “what happens when government oversteps the bounds of its power and infringes upon the rights of citizens?”  This seventy-minute program, including post-performance discussion, is being produced and presented in support of the Festival’s forthcoming mainstage production of Arthur Miller’s THE CRUCIBLE, which he wrote as an allegory for these HUAC Congressional “witch-hunting” hearings of the ‘40’s.
 
SEEING RED is recommended for ages junior high and older.  Lorain County Community College is located at 1005 N. Abbe Road, Elyria.  Bring older children;  bring friends; bring neighbors to experience this important theater piece.  Seating is limited.  Call 440-366-7120 with questions.

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Jeremy K. Benjamin
Production Manager/Technical Director/Designer
Lorain County Community College
1005 N. Abbe Rd.
Elyria,  OH  44035
(440) 366-7120
jbenjami@xxxxxxxxxxxxx