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Sarasota News Leader March 22, 2013 the plays from 2006 to 2009. Festival attendees will be able to place orders for Volume Two, which will include plays from 2010 through this 2013 season. Both volumes will be sold at a discount during the festival, the release adds. Page 91 ed and performed by Gulf Coast playwrights, actors and directors, the release points out. Friday and Saturday during the festival, the plays will be presented at 8 p.m. Matinee performances are being offered on Saturday (new this year) and Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets are $15 Theatre Odyssey was founded in 2006 to en- for adults and $5 for students. courage and promote the efforts of local playwrights and actors. Over the years, the group For more information or to purchase tickets, has premiered almost 70 plays written, direct- visit www.theatreodyssey.org/or call 799-7224. Joshus Brinn and Don Walker appeared in Confessions a Deux by Stephen Cooper, which won the 2012 Ten-Minute Play Festival. Contributed photo BOOKER MIDDLE SCHOOL TO PRESENT NIGHT OF DIVERSE TALENT Students in the VPA Creative Writing program at Booker Middle School will showcase their artistic talents at 6:30 p.m. on March 28, the school has announced. Students will read their poetry aloud at the school���s Dragonfly Caf��. Afterward, other students are welcome to share their own poems with the audience, a news release says. creative writing at the school, in the release. ���The students read their poetry to the crowd, and friends and relatives are there to support them,��� she adds. Members of the public are welcome to attend, the release notes. Admission is free; donations will be gratefully accepted. ���The Caf�� is a classroom turned into a cof- Booker Middle is located at 2250 Myrtle St. in fee house,��� says Joanna Fox, who teaches Sarasota. %