[NEohioPAL] "Tom at the Farm" Great play! No hay!

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	_CONVERGENCE-CONTINUUM_

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	_TOM AT THE FARM_

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	NO HAY ON THE SET

	(BUT THERE IS ONE REALLY GREAT PLAY!)

	 

	In Roy Berko’s recent review of con-con’s production of _Tom at
the Farm, _he warned that there were bales of hay on the set that
allergy sufferers might be wary of.  WRONG!  There are bales of
straw
 on set.  Big difference!  Hay is dried grass and includes the grass
“heads” wherein lie the seeds, pollen, etc.  Straw, however,
consists of only the dried stalks (i.e. stems) of wheat after the seed
heads have been removed.  Hay is used as animal feed.  Straw is used
in stalls for animal bedding. For a long time it was also used for
filling mattresses and, in fact, still is.  (You can go online and
find plenty of instructions for making your own straw mattress.)  So
come on, who would really think we didn’t know any better than to
put hay
 on the set?

	 

	Some things that Mr. Berko did
 get right, however, are:

	 

	“Tom at the Farm ... unfolds with blurred boundaries between lust
and brutality, truth and fiction.  It blends psychological-thriller
elements as it moves toward an unsettling plunge into a nightmare of
fear, intolerance and fantasy.”  

	 

	“The con con production is strong.”

	 

	“The acting is of high quality.” “Kudos to Mike Frye (Tom),
Daniel McElhaney (Francis) and Madelyn Voltz (Sara) for nicely
texturing their performances.  Laura Starnik is exceptional as
Agatha”

	 

	“fulfills the theatre’s mission of “expanding human imagination
and extends the conventional boundaries of language, structure, space
and performance.”  This is the kind of play with sexual overtones
and the bizarre that turns on the typical con-con loyalist.”

	 

	So don’t miss out. Just two more weekends. 

	_Tom at the Farm 
_runs Thu-Sat at 8 p.m. through August 3 at the Liminis Theater, 2438
Scranton Rd., Cleveland 44113 in the historic Tremont neighborhood. 
Fri and Sat tickets are $20 general admission, $15 for seniors and $10
for students.  Thurs tickets are $15 gen. admission, $12 seniors and
$8 students. Tickets and information are available at
convergence-continuum.org [1] and 216-687-0074.

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	Convergence-continuum’s production of _Tom at the Farm _is
supported in part by the residents of Cuyahoga County  through a
public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture.

	 



Links:
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[1] http://convergence-continuum.org

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