[NEohioPAL] A MAP OF VIRTUE opens Fri, June 20

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A MAP OF VIRTUE OPENS FRI, JUNE 20 AT CONVERGENCE-CONTINUUM

convergence-continuum continues its 2014 Season with the regional premiere
of Erin Courtney’s 2012 Obie Award-winning play A Map of Virtue.  Part
interview, part comedy, part middle-of-the-night ordeal, A MAP OF VIRTUE
is a perfectly symmetrically-structured play guided by a tiny bird statue.

An unlikely friendship develops between Mark and Sarah when he gives her a
small bird statue during a chance encounter. Although inextricably linked,
they remain strangers until they are forced, along with Sarah's husband
Nate and Mark’s boyfriend Victor, to share a frightening weekend in a
cabin deep in the woods that derails into a quiet, pitiless nightmare. The
play is structured around a symmetrical arrangement of themes, organized
around seven virtues which are announced by the narrator – the tiny statue
of a meadowlark.  Though it begins as a quirkily humorous rumination on
chance and symmetry, Ms. Courtney's drama alters into a tense and
enigmatic exploration of obsession, attachment, isolation and the murky
middle of the night – when bad things sometimes happen.

A MAP OF VIRTUE is directed by convergence-continuum’s Artistic Director,
Clyde Simon, and features company actors Lucy Bredeson-Smith, Robert
Hawkes, Mike Majer, Jack  Matuszewski and Eric Sever, and newcomers to the
Liminis stage Kat Bi and Logan Smith.

A MAP OF VIRTUE opens Friday, June 20 and runs at 8 pm, Thursdays, Fridays
and Saturdays through July 12 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.  Tickets and
information are available at http://www.convergence-continuum.org or
216-687-0074.

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A MAP OF VIRTUE is the third and final play in convergence-continuum’s
three-play series “The Menagerie Surreal,” which included Lobster Alice in
March/April and Swimming in the Shallows in May.  The series is supported
in part by the residents of Cuyahoga County through a public grant from
Cuyahoga Arts & Culture.