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After seven years of productions, the Proposition Theatre faces the prospect of a long, hot summer with great trepidation. Unless the company can raise $3500 for the purchase of installation of an airconditioning system, the 150-seat theater in Inman Square will close its doors May 29.
Thomas Urquhart, managing director of the improvisational theater group, said yesterday that the Proposition faces the same chronic financial difficulties that "plague most performing arts organizations--increasing costs and declining public support."
The Proposition's past success in financing its productions has resulted in a disproportionately low level of assistance from the Massachusetts Council on the Arts, Urquhart said.
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