[NEohioPAL] DARK RIDE opens at convergence-continuum Fri, May 21

[convergence-continuum]

CONVERGENCE-CONTINUUM PRESENTS DARK RIDE, A COMEDICALLY MYSTIFYING
PHANTASMAGORIC ADVENTURE BY LEN JENKIN, OPENING FRIDAY, MAY 21.

convergence-continuum, continues its 2010 season at the Liminis theatre
with the Ohio premiere of DARK RIDE, a convoluted, phantasmagoric and
strangely comic tale by Len Jenkin.

A mysterious figure gives a translator an ancient manuscript; a thief
steals an enormous cursed jewel; a dream-like waitress gives her customers
plenty to think about (but no food); a jeweler and a general kidnap the
thief’s couch-potato girlfriend; a carnival con-man displays the mummified
remains of John Wilkes Booth. These are just a few of the series of
bizarre events that merge into a phantasmagoric and convoluted journey -
Len Jenkin's masterpiece, Dark Ride. Taking its title from the term for an
amusement-park fun-house ride, Dark Ride expertly weaves the unlikely
threads of his story together into a whole that  goes beyond the physical
world to explore the true seat of reality - the inner recesses of the
mind.  As the play progresses, one by one the seemingly unrelated stories
merge and collide until they conclude in a spectacularly strange oculists'
convention in Mexico City that challenges the very bounds of reality
itself. And isn't that just what a good fun-house ride is supposed to do?

DARK RIDE is directed by company member Geoffrey Hoffman (who directed
convergence’s Finn in the Underworld, Freakshow and Demon Baby) and
features actors Curt Arnold, Lucy Bredeson-Smith, Cliff Bailey, Stuart
Hoffman, Sarah Kunchik, Christian Prentice, Michael Regnier, Erin Scerbak,
Clyde Simon and Lauren B. Smith.  Designers include Rob Wachala (lights),
Bill Amato (sound), Sade Wolfkitten and Scott Gorbach (costumes), and Jim
Valore (set). Stage Manager is Stephanie Bahnij.

DARK RIDE  opens Friday, May 21 and runs at 8 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and
Saturdays through June 19 at the Liminis, 2438 Scranton Rd., Cleveland, OH
44113.  Tickets are $15 general admission, $12 for students and seniors
(65+).  For reservations and information call 216-687-0074 or go to
http://www.convergence-continuum.org.