[NEohioPAL] VALPARAISO opens this Friday!

[csimon at convergence-continuum.org]

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

VALPARAISO is a wickedly funny and discomfiting examination of our
media-obsessed culture and our freaky 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 big-time: the tell-all daytime talk show!  Here nothing remains
unseen, and personal secrets, no matter how intimate, are fair game.

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.)