[NEohioPAL] 10th Season opens Fri, Mar 18 with "Valparaiso"

[convergence-continuum]

CONVERGENCE-CONTINUUM KICKS OFF ITS TENTH SEASON WITH THE OHIO PREMIERE OF
VALPARAISO BY DON DELILLO, OPENING MARCH 18

convergence-continuum, opens its 2011 Season at the Liminis theatre with
the Ohio premiere of Valparaiso by Don DeLillo – a dark and comic probe
into media celebrity.  This is acclaimed novelist Don DeLillo’s third play
and is a wickedly discomfiting and funny examination of our media-obsessed
culture and our morbid fascination with sudden celebrity.  Remember John
and Lorena Bobbitt? Joe the Plumber? John and Cait? The list goes on.

Michael Majeski boards a plane on a routine business trip to Valparaiso,
Indiana, but through a succession of blunders ends up in Valparaiso,
Chile.  In a series of intense and often surreal press, radio and TV news
interviews, he tries to establish his identity as he moves from being a
humorous media curiosity to a national media celebrity, until he reaches
the pinnacle of  prominence: the interrogation chamber of the tell-all
daytime talk show.  Here nothing remains unseen, and no dark personal
crises can be left unspoken.

Valparaiso  is directed by convergence-continuum’s Artistic Director,
Clyde Simon, and features actors Curt Arnold, Amy Bistok-Bunce, Lucy
Bredeson-Smith, Darryl Dickenson, Clint Elston, Geoffrey Hoffman, Sarah
Kunchik, Cory Molner and Lauren B. Smith.

Valparaiso  opens Friday, Mar. 18 and runs at 8 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays
and Saturdays through Apr. 16 at the Liminis, 2438 Scranton Rd.,
Cleveland, OH 44113 in the historic Tremont neighborhood.  Tickets are $15
general admission, $12 for seniors (65+) and $10 for students. 
Reservations and information are available at 216-687-0074 and
http://www.convergence-continuum.org.

(Valparaiso is generously funded by the residents of Cuyahoga County
through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture.)