[NEohioPAL] SORDID LIVES opens Fri, March 22 at convergence-continuum

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SORDID LIVES, A HILARIOUSLY CLEVER AND CAMPY COMEDY BY DEL SHORES
OPENS FRIDAY, MARCH 22 AT CONVERGENCE-CONTINUUM.

convergence-continuum opens its 2013 Season with the Cleveland premiere of
Sordid Lives a comedy by Del Shores.  When Peggy, a good Christian woman,
hits her head on the sink and bleeds to death after tripping over her
married lover's wooden legs in a motel room, chaos erupts in Winters,
Texas.  Some family members are afraid that all the family skeletons will
come flying out of the closet at once as they gather to mourn the family’s
matriarch.  Meanwhile, grandson Ty, much to the chagrin of Latrelle, his
up-tight mother, is coming out of the closet in a different way.  (Will he
turn out like his uncle “Brother Boy,” a gay transvestite who has been in
a mental institution for over 20 years, entertaining fellow patients with
his impersonation of Tammy Wynette while undergoing "dehomosexualization”
therapy?) Then there’s the gun-slinging revenge rampage of the peg-legged
lothario’s wronged wife Noleta – along with LaVonda, another of deceased’s
daughters.  Throw in a remorseful bartender, his dim brother, town drunk
Juanita, and a few other townsfolk, and you’ve got a hilariously clever,
campy and often raunchy tale that doesn’t shy away from serious themes
such as bigotry, guilt, homosexuality, forgiveness and acceptance.

Sordid Lives is directed by convergence-continuum’s Artistic Director,
Clyde Simon, and features a dozen con-con company actors:  Amy
Bistok-Bunce, Lucy Bredeson-Smith, Liz Conway, Clint Elston, Elaine
Feagler, Lauri Hammer, Zac Hudak, Marcia Mandell, Tyson Douglas Rand, Wes
Shofner, Lisa Wiley and Jonathan Wilhelm.

Sordid Lives opens Friday, March 22 and runs at 8 p.m. Thu-Sat through
April 20 at the Liminis, 2438 Scranton Rd., Cleveland, OH 44113 in the
historic Tremont neighborhood.  Tickets are $15 general admission, $12 for
seniors and $10 for students.  Reservations and information at
www.convergence-continuum.org and 216-687-0074.

Sordid Lives is supported in part by the residents of Cuyahoga County
through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture.