[NEohioPAL] DOG ACT opens March 25th at convergence-continuum

[Cory Molner]

DOG ACT OPENS FRIDAY MARCH 25, AT CONVERGENCE-CONTINUUM 

Convergence-continuum kicks offits 2022 season, “Societies in Question” with the Cleveland Premiere of Dog Act, by Liz Duffy Adams.

Post-apocalyptic wilderness was never funnier.  Dog Actfollow the adventures of Zetta Stone, a traveling performer, and her companionDog (a young man undergoing a voluntary species demotion) as they wanderthrough the former northeastern United States. Zetta, Dog and their littletroupe are on their way to a gig in China, assuming they can find it...andsurvive the journey. A theatrical, darkly comic variation on the classicdoomsday genre, with five original songs.

 

“A fresh, word-drunkcomedy by Liz Duffy Adams. Her deftly experimental yet highly entertaining DogAct is riddled with Shakespearean resonance, conjuring a post-apocalypticand post-literate world. Yet, it's as keenly intelligent as a comedy bylanguage poet Mac Wellman. Dog Act introduces a playwright who has a lotto say, though in a hip, street-smart way – that is, obliquely. …AnalyzingAdams’ virtuosic technique tends to deaden its exhilarating effect. Herapproach is light, her tone buoyant, and the echoing references to Shakespeareor the Bible or “Peter Pan” come and go in a flash, like lightning. Thedialogue doesn't provoke the listener to struggle to make sense of the variousargots; instead it shocks the listener wide awake to enjoy the malleability,the beauty and the strangeness of the words by which we communicate – ordon’t.” –Anne Marie Welsh, San Diego Union-Tribune.

 

Dog Act is directedby David L. Munnell and features actors Denise Astorino, Andrea BelserMcCormick, Wesley Allen, Emileo Fernandez, Mike Frye, and Kate Smith, with livemusic by Jonah Raider-Roth. Scenography by Cory Molner and Scott Zolkowski.

 
Dog Act opens Friday, March 25 and runs Thu-Sat at 8 p.m. through April 16 atconvergence-continuum’s Liminis Theater, 2438 Scranton Rd., Cleveland, OH 44113in the historic Tremont neighborhood. Tickets are $23 general admission, $18for seniors and $18 for students. Tickets and information are available atwww.convergence-continuum.org and 216-687-0074.

Cory MolnerExecutive Artistic Director, convergence-continuum Theater(He/Him/His)
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