[NEohioPAL] A MAP OF VIRTUE opens next Fri, June 20 at convergence-continuum

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CONVERGENCE-CONTINUUM PRESENTS THE REGIONAL PREMIERE OF
A MAP OF VIRTUE, OPENING NEXT FRIDAY, JULY 20.

convergence-continuum continues its 2014 Season with 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 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.  Reservations and
information are available at 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.