<html><body style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><div>WILDLY OUTRAGEOUS “NEIGHBORS” OPENS THIS FRI, JULY 7 AT CONVERGENCE-CONTINUUM</div><div>-Ohio premiere of Neighbors by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, directed by Terrence Spivey-</div><div><br></div><div>In parts blackface minstrel show, family drama and tragic farce, NEIGHBORS takes racial rage head-on in our supposedly “post-racial” world with shocking, savage humor. This outrageously provocative and controversial play by MacArthur genius award winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is directed by Terrence Spivey (director of last year’s con-con production of Bootycandy).</div><div><br></div><div>Classics professor Richard Patterson is not happy. The family of black entertainers that has moved in next door is an embarrassment—loud, raucous, tacky, shameless and obscene. They’re not just taking over the neighborhood—they’re infiltrating his perfect, interracial family and his perfect, post-racial sanity. In its scathing exploration of denial and its satire of black entertainment from blackface minstrelsy to hip-hop, NEIGHBORS is a shocking, explosive, hilarious and wildly theatrical play.</div><div><br></div><div>NEIGHBORS opens THIS Fri, July 7 and runs Thurs-Sat at 8 pm through July 29 at the Liminis Theater, 2438 Scranton Rd, Cleveland 44113 in the historic Tremont neighborhood. Tickets are $20 general admission, $15 seniors (65+), $10 students. </div><div><br></div><div>Reservations and information at <a href="http://convergence-continuum.org">convergence-continuum.org</a> and 216-687-0074.</div><br><br></body></html>