Thu 7/28-Sun 8/7
Cleveland Public Theatre’s long-running Student Theatre Enrichment Program (STEP) brings together an ensemble of teenagers for the summer to earn money while learning to work together as a team to create, produce and perform a piece of original theater based on their own ideas and experiences. They do free performances of the finished work in neighborhoods across the city.
This year’s work is titled The Myth of Me. Using music, dance and dialogue, it revolves around a neighborhood in crisis, a young girl who is losing hope and a greedy landlord, leading to a series of “mysterious events that shake the community into an awakening that sparks a revolution of thought.”
“The Myth of Me urges us to ask what we really know of one another and ourselves,” they say. “What are the truths, what are the lies, and what exists for all of us in the space between? Is our fate predetermined, or must we act to create our own destiny?”
Fifteen young artists will be at various locations for the next two weeks, performing The Myth of Me. It kicks off at Herman Park in CPT’s own Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood on Thursday July 28, then moves to the Woodhill Homes Community Center on Friday July 29. The kids will do two performances on Monday August 1, at the Outhwaite Community Center @1pm and the Shrine Church of St. Stanislaus @ 7pm, and they’ll be at the Riverside Park Community Center on Tuesday August 2 @ 1pm. For a full schedule of performances, running through Sunday August 7, go here.
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