<html><head><base href="x-msg://121/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div bgcolor="#ffffff"><div><font size="4" face="Calligraph421 BT"></font> </div><div><font size="4" face="Calligraph421 BT">visit their website:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.commongroundtheatre.org/"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">http://www.commongroundtheatre.org/</font></a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Calligraph421 BT"></font> </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; border-collapse: separate; font: normal normal normal medium/normal 'Times New Roman'; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><table border="0" bordercolor="#ffffcc" align="left" height="177%"><tbody><tr bordercolor="#669933" bgcolor="#999933"><td bgcolor="#006600" height="150" valign="top" bordercolor="#000000" width="696"><div align="center"><div align="center"><p class="style175 style73" align="center" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 36px; ">Schedule of Upcoming Events</p><p class="style175" align="center" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><strong>Monday, September 27, 2010<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>6-9pm</strong><br>Third Annual “This Is Gaffney”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong><strong>Fundraiser<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></strong></p><p class="style175" align="center" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><strong> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>Friday, December 3</strong>, 2010 - Sunday, December 19, 2010<br>Black Nativity by Langston Hughes<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong><br> Black Nativity, music and lyrics by Langston Hughes and Jobe Huntley, recounts the birth, suffering, death and redemption of Christ as told in Biblical stories from both Old and New Testaments. The story is glorious, humble and very spectacular told through musical selections from traditional to up-tempo contemporary. It was first performed on Broadway on December 11, 1961, and was one of the first plays written by an African-American to do so. </p><div style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="style175" align="center" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><strong><strong>Friday, February 4</strong>, 2011<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>Sunday, February 20, 2011</strong><br></strong><strong></strong><strong>A Soldier's Play by Charles Fuller<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong><br> Common Ground commemorates the 30th anniversary of The Negro Ensemble Company's Off-Broadway production of A Soldier's Play. It originally opened November 20,1981 and ran for 468 performances. While it is about the investigation of a murder, A Soldier's Play is not a murder mystery in the strictest sense. It is the story of a murder investigation in a segregated Louisiana Army camp, where one man exposes the devastating effects of racism and self-hatred. This powerful, Pulitzer prize winning drama of World War II era explores the history of America's legacy of racism.</p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div align="center"><span class="style175" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><strong>Friday, April 22 - Sunday, May 8, 2011<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></strong><strong>Taxi Dance by Joe Powers World Premiere<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong></span><br> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="style216" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204); ">T</span><span class="style175" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">axi Dance is an offbeat love story painted on the backdrop of what was once a beautiful dime-a-dance hall; now a forlorn palace where men can rent a dancer for thirty-five cents a minute – plus tips. Gone with its beauty is its heart. It's a place where broken dreams meet, converse, play themselves out and then return to that receptacle of yearning – that place in the back of the mind or heart where they can remain until the next time it is safe to air them out. On this particular night Betty's life flashes before her and she finds herself perplexed and frightened. She looks to her younger counterpart for redemption only to find frustration. As the night unfolds Betty looks for a way back to her dreams and her once youthful hope and passion. Ultimately she learns that even though dreams do not always come true . . . there is always hope and of course – tomorrow.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="style44" align="center" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><strong><span class="style216" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204); "><strong><strong></strong></strong></span></strong></p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="style44" align="center" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><strong><span class="style216" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204); "><strong><strong></strong></strong></span></strong></p></div></td></tr><tr bordercolor="#669933" bgcolor="#999933"><td bgcolor="#006600" height="29" valign="top"><div style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 18px; "> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="style204" align="left" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 18px; "><a class="style72" href="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); ">Click here</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for a press release on the musical and Artistic Director, Hassan El-Amin</p><p class="style204" align="left" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 18px; "><span class="style175" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><a href="">Click here</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for Group Sales opportunities for San Diego area churches</span></p></td></tr><tr bordercolor="#669933" bgcolor="#999933"><td bgcolor="#006600" valign="top"><div align="center"><div id="yiv1936521218"><div id="yiv910186059"><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(96, 0, 191); font-weight: bold; "><div style="font-style: italic; font-size: 36px; "> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div align="center"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span></span></div><div><font size="4" face="Calligraph421 BT"></font> </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Calligraph421 BT'; font-size: large; "><a href="http://web.mac.com/codypowers/joepowers">http://web.mac.com/codypowers/joepowers</a></span></div><div><font size="4" face="Calligraph421 BT"> <br>The Blue Trunk Theatre Company<br><a href="http://www.bluetrunktheatreco.org">http://www.bluetrunktheatreco.org</a></font></div><div> </div><div><font size="4" face="Calligraph421 BT">Cody Powers Films: <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://web.me.com/codypowers/codypowersfilms/home.html">http://web.me.com/codypowers/codypowersfilms/home.html</a></font></div></div></span></div><br><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Robin Russin</div><div><br></div><div>Associate Professor, Department of Theatre</div><div>Director, MFA for Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts<br>University of California, Riverside<br>Riverside, CA 92521<br>(951) 827-2707<br>(213) 949-1061 cel<br><a href="mailto:robin.russin@ucr.edu">robin.russin@ucr.edu</a></div><div><a href="mailto:robin.russin@ucr.edu"></a><a href="http://robinrussin.com">http://robinrussin.com</a><br><br>"I try all things; I achieve what I can." - Ishmael in "Moby Dick," written by Herman Melville</div><div><br>"Deserve's got nothin' to do with it." - William Munny in "Unforgiven," written by David Webb Peoples</div><div><br></div><div>"Hunger is the best spice." - Spike Spiegel in "Cowboy Bebop," written by Keiko Nobumoto</div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></span>
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