[NEohioPAL] DARK RIDE opens this Friday at convergence-continuum!

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

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, takes its title from the term for an
amusement-park fun-house ride.  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.

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.