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Colder Than Here
by Laura Wade

February 28 - March 23 , 2008
Laura Wade is a Pearson Playwright prizewinner, was recently named Most Promising Playwright tby the London Critics Circle, and was nominated for an Olivier Award.

When Myra learns that she has terminal cancer she responds in her normal take charge manner, organizing her funeral in a Power-Point presentation. Myra's husband, Alec, retreats to his malfunctioning boiler leaving Myra's adult daughters to cope with cemetery picnics and biodegradable coffins. A hilarious and powerful story of a fractured family learning to open doors to each other.

Performance times
Our regular performance schedule is:
Thursday 7:30 pm
Friday/Saturday performances start at 8:00 pm
First Sunday of the run: starting at 7:30 pm
All other Sunday performances are 2:30 pm matinees.

Please note:
There will be no performance on Thursday, March 20th.
The Saturday, March 22nd performance will be a 4pm matinee, NOT at 8pm.

Venue:
Pilgrim Congregational Church
2592 West 14th Street
(West 14th and Starkweather)
Cleveland, OH 44113

**SPECIAL EVENTS**
There will be talkbacks after the following performances:

March 6th and March 8th
Featured speaker:
Beth Shapiro, MSSA, LISW-S
Hospice Social Worker, Adjunct Faculty Mandel School of Applied Social
Science
President, Hospice and Palliative Care Social Work Organization.

March 7th and March 14th
Featured speaker:
Robb Forward, President, Brown-Forward, Inc.
Brown-Forward Funeral Home is the oldest continuing funeral home in Ohio.
Robb has been working there since he was 14 years old. He has participated
in alternative and green funerals.

March 13th
Featured speakers:
Kristina Austin, MSEd, LSW
Director of Community Outreach and Marketing for The Gathering Place

Betsy Kohn, MA
Director of Volunteers for The Gathering Place.

March 15th
Featured speakers:
Mary Fisher Bornstein, LISW
Program Staff for The Gathering Place

Kathleen McCue, MA, LSW, CCLS, Children’s Program Director.

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