[NEohioPAL] AMAZONS AND THEIR MEN opens next Fri, Aug 8 at convergence-continuum

[convergence-continuum via NEohioPAL]

AMAZONS AND THEIR MEN, A DARK COMEDY BY JORDAN HARRISON
OPENS NEXT FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, AT CONVERGENCE-CONTINUUM

convergence-continuum continues its 2014 Season with the Ohio premiere of
Jordan Harrison’s darkly-comedic look at the role of artists during
wartime.  In 1930’s Berlin, the Frau (a character based by Leni
Riefenstahl) used to direct beautiful propaganda films for the fascist
government.  Now she's trying to make a film that's simply beautiful.   
The Frau casts herself in the lead role of the Amazon queen Penthesilea,
who falls in love with Achilles on the battlefield of the Trojan War.   
She recruits a man from the Jewish ghetto to play her dashing Achilles,
and a gorgeous young man, a Romany gypsy, to play Achilles’ on-camera
companion and lover, Petroclus.  But things start to get complicated, and
for the men dangerous, when the men’s off-camera life is revealed to be an
imitation of their on-camera art.  Meanwhile, the Frau’s sister, a
recurring extra in her films whose specialty is dying spectacularly on
camera, is trying to get the Frau to wake up to the ominous
goings-on in the world around them.

Amazons and Their Men is directed by convergence-continuum’s Artistic
Director, Clyde Simon, and
features company actors Lauri Hammer as the Frau, Clint Elston as the Man,
Jack Matuszewski as the Boy and Jaclyn Cifranic as the Extra.

We like the plays of Jordan Harrison a lot! This will be the fifth play of
his that convergence-continuum has produced. The others: Act a Lady, Finn
in the Underworld, The Museum Play, and Kid Simple-a radio play in the
flesh.

Amazons and Their Men opens Fri, Aug 8 and runs Thu-Sat at 8 pm through
Aug 30 at the Liminis theater, 2438 Scranton Rd, Cleveland 44113. Tickets
are $15 general admission, $12 seniors, $10 students.  Reservations and
info are available at http://www.convergence-continuum.org and
216-687-0074.