[NEohioPAL] INSURRECTION: HOLDING HISTORY opens October 14th at convergence-continuum

[Cory Molner]

Convergence-continuum continues its 2022 season with INSURRECTION:HOLDING HISTORY, by Robert O’Hara.

Struggling with hisgraduate thesis on slavery, Ron, a gay, black student at Columbia, attends afamily reunion to celebrate his great-great-grandfather T.J.’s 189th birthday.Despite the fact that T.J. can’t move, hear, or speak, T.J. (given voice by thespirit of Mutha Wit) convinces Ron to take him back to his old home inVirginia. Fracturing the space-time continuum as they go further south, theyarrive on the eve of Nat Turner’s doomed 1831 uprising to see Nat Turnerhimself racing through the woods. Encouraged to understand his ‘past’ in orderto understand his ‘present’ and the perception-altering confrontation with whatit means to be ‘free’, Ron discovers that how the authenticity of historyunfolds depends on the perception of the storyteller.
Winner of theOppenheimer Award for Best New American Play in 1996, Insurrection: Holding History isa fanciful dramatization of Black history by multi award-winning playwright anddirector Robert O’Hara. Written during his artist-in-residency at the NY PublicTheater, the play garnered immediate acclaim for the burgeoning playwrightearning comparisons to a cross between Roots and TheWizard of Oz. The SanFrancisco Examiner called it “One seriously hilarious andhilariously serious play… remarkably exciting, deeply provocative, [and]comically profound.” Wonderfully witty with time-bending fantasticalturns, Insurrection: HoldingHistory is a wild, thrilling ride between past and present.

Insurrection: HoldingHistory is directed by Jeannine Gaskin. The cast features Andrew Pope (TJ)Chelsea Anderson (Izzie Mae), Isaiah Betts (Hammet), Kadijah Wing (Mutha Wit),Laprise Johnson (Gertha), Matthew Raybeam (Nat Turner), Mike Frye (Cop,Detective, etc.), Sydney Smith (Octavia/Katie Lynn), and Wesley Allen (Ron).
Insurrection: HoldingHistory opens Friday, October 14 and runs Thu-Sat at 8 p.m. through November 5at convergence-continuum’s Liminis Theater, 2438 Scranton Rd., Cleveland, OH44113 in the historic Tremont neighborhood. Tickets are $23 general admission,$18 for seniors and $18 for students. Tickets and information are availableat www.convergence-continuum.org and 216-687-0074.
Cory MolnerExecutive Artistic Director, convergence-continuum Theater(He/Him/His)
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