[NEohioPAL] SONGS WITHOUT WORDS at convergence-continuum

[Cory Molner]

*SONGS WITHOUT WORDS, nationally recognized new play from Chicago
playwright, to perform at convergence-continuum’s Tweener Series August
29th - 31st*

*Songs Without Words* (*or, The Mendelssohn Play*), an award winning solo
play from Chicago-based actor/playwright Jennifer Vosters, will perform
three shows through con*ver*gence-continu*um*’s “Tweener Series” this
August. *Songs Without Words* is the humorous, heartbreaking story of one
artistic soul inhabiting two very different artists. Featuring Vosters’s
tour-de-force performance as sibling composers Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn,

*Songs Without Word*s wrestles with gender and genius, family and fame,
siblinghood and the power of art.

The play won the 2024 M. Elizabeth Osborn Award from the American Theatre
Critics Association, a national award recognizing outstanding new plays
from emerging playwrights. *Songs Without Words* also won Critics’ Pick of
the Fringe at the Cincinnati Fringe Festival.

Alan Jozwiak of the League of Cincinnati Theatres called *Songs Without
Words* “a rich and beautiful tapestry of two composers’ lives that is well
told and wonderfully acted
<https://www.leagueofcincytheatres.info/cincy-fringe-2024-cancel-this-musical-and-songs-without-words-very-strong/>.”
Fellow critic Katrina Reynolds lauded its “incredible writing, exciting
direction, and what can only bedescribed as a flawless performance.
<https://www.leagueofcincytheatres.info/kats-fringe-reviews-june-7-9/>”
Kirk Sheppard of The Sappy Critic gave it “a must-see recommendation
<https://thesappycritic.substack.com/p/fringe-62-day-two>,” and Milwaukee’s
Russ Bickerstaff described it as “a remarkable piece…[that]speaks to
universals in art, life, and familial love, making it a one-hour journey
anyone can take.
<https://thesmallstage.weebly.com/blog/mendelssohn-mendelssohn-vosters>”

Fanny Mendelssohn was a 19th -century composer who, like most women of the
time, was not permitted to be a professional artist. Her younger brother
Felix, famous for masterpieces like “The Wedding March” and “Hark! The
Herald Angels Sing,” soared to stardom while she remained relatively
obscure, until recent interest in her music has propelled her into the
spotlight.

While lovers of history and classical music will find much to enjoy,
Vosters stresses that Songs Without Words is a story for everybody. “It’s
about sibling love and sibling rivalry, it’s about family, it’s about
trying and failing and trying again to live up to your potential,” she
says. It’s fast-paced—only 60 minutes—and from Ohio to Saskatchewan, it’s
been striking a chord with audiences from all walks of life.

Songs Without Words
Written and Performed by Jennifer Vosters
Thu-Sat at 8 p.m.

ONE WEEKEND ONLY

August 29th through August 31st
Tickets are $20 general admission
for tickets please visit www.convergence-continuum.org

All performances are held at the Liminis Theater
2438 Scranton Rd. Cleveland 44113
in the Historic Tremont neighborhood.


-- 
Cory Molner
Executive Artistic Director
convergence-continuum
cmolner at convergence-continuum.org
216-308-9375
He/him (what this? <https://pronouns.org/>)
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