<html><body style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">DARK, HUMOROUS & STRANGE: “HARM'S WAY” BY MAC WELLMAN</span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">NOW ONSTAGE AT CONVERGENCE-CONTINUUM THURS-SAT THRU APRIL 15</span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">"There is more cussin' and shootin' and killin' than a Quentin Tarantino movie....By the way, it's a comedy" </span><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">(Mark Horning, </span><i style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/regional/cleveland/cleve164.html">Talkin' Broadway</a></i><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">"...we are plunged into the distorted world of playwright Mac Wellman, a world where common aspects of our lives – violence, con games, dead Presidents – appear as if reflected in a fun house mirror. And then you realize maybe this view isn't so distorted after all." </span><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">(Christine Howey, </span><i style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://raveandpan.blogspot.com/">Rave and Pan</a></i><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">) </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><i><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Harm’s Way</span></i><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">, the darkly humorous fable of an angry man on a rampage through a fantastical wilderness, follows the exploits of very angry Santouche as he tries to make sense of his understanding of law and order in a nation of other very angry people. Filled with Wild West and circus sideshow imagery, the action doesn’t unfold in any specific time or place. But all the characters drink from the same poisoned well, which is definitely American. It might be anytime in the last 70 years, or even possibly in the next.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><i><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Harm’s Way</span></i><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"> is directed by convergence-continuum’s Artistic Director, Clyde Simon, and features actors Wesley Allen, Robert Branch, Gideon Lorete, Joseph Milan, Michael Regnier, Beau Reinker, Brian Westerley, Hillary Wheelock, Carrie Williams and Monica Zach. This is the seventh Mac Wellman play presented by convergence-continuum, having previously produced <i>Sincerity Forever, 7 Blowjobs, Cleveland, Whirligig, A Murder of Crows</i> and <i>The Hyacinth Macaw.</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><i><br></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><i><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Harm’s Way</span></i><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"> runs Thu-Sat at 8 pm through April 15 at convergence-continuum’s Liminis Theater, 2438 Scranton Rd, Cleveland 44113 in the historic Tremont neighborhood. </span><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Tickets are $20 general admission, $15 seniors (65+), $10 students. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Reservations at <a href="http://convergence-continuum.org">convergence-continuum.org</a> </span><a href="http://convergence-continuum.org/" style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"></a><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">or 216-687-0074.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">-----------------------------------------------------------</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">This production is supported in part by the residents of Cuyahoga County through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture.</span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><br><br></body></html>