<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><p class="ydpf52b3d8dMsoNormal" align="center" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><i style=""><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>GIDION’S KNOT </b></span></i><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">OPENS FRIDAY, MARCH 20</span></b></p><p class="ydpf52b3d8dMsoNormal" align="center" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">AT CONVERGENCE-CONTINUUM </span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br> </span></p><p class="ydpf52b3d8dMsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gidion’s Knot </span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">opens Friday, March 20 and runs Thu-Sat at 8 p.m. through April 11 at convergence-continuum’s Liminis Theater, 2438 Scranton Rd., Cleveland, OH 44113 in the historic Tremont neighborhood.</span></p><p class="ydpf52b3d8dMsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Over the course of a parent/teacher conference, a grieving mother and an emotionally overwhelmed fifth-grade primary school teacher have a fraught conversation about the tragic suicide of the mother's son, Gidion. Gidion may have been bullied severely—or he may have been an abuser. As his story is slowly uncovered, the women try to reconstruct a satisfying explanation for Gidion's act and come to terms with excruciating feelings of culpability.</span></p><p class="ydpf52b3d8dMsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Gidion’s Knot </i>is a thought-provoking two-character play touching upon bullying, teacher/parent responsibility, the local principal’s and board’s decisions and policies, the school system’s failures and the issue of students’ freedom of expression. The face-off escalates inexorably throughout as the two women confront the audience as much as one another with their characters’ pain, avoidance and degrees of guilt and regret.<br><i> </i></span></p><p class="ydpf52b3d8dMsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">“…resonant…[a] particularly eloquent study of people caught between the competing demands of reason, morality and family…harrowing…a narrative that is as elegant as it is chilling.”</span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"> —Washington Post.<br><br><i>“heart-stopping…the show has pathos and suspense in bucketloads…Within a lean 80 minutes, the show raises profound questions about parenting and education and documents the gut-wrenching force of maternal loyalty.” </i>—Washingtonian.<br><br><i>“GIDION’S KNOT is as sad as life itself, and as funny and startling as well…a beautiful, disturbing story.” </i>—DCTheatreScene.com.</span></p><p class="ydpf52b3d8dMsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br><i>Gidion’s Knot </i>is directed by con<i>ver</i>gence-continu<i>um</i>’s Amy Bistok and features con-con actors Laurel Hoffman and Elaine Feagler.</span></p><p class="ydpf52b3d8dMsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tickets at $20 general admission, $15 for seniors and $10 for students are available at <a href="http://convergence-continuum.org/" style="color: rgb(25, 106, 212); text-decoration-line: underline;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" fg_scanned="1">convergence-continuum.org</a> and 216-687-0074.</span></b></p><p class="ydpf52b3d8dMsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><b></b></p><div><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">-------------------------------</span><br></b></div><p></p><p class="ydpf52b3d8dMsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Convergence-continuum’s production of <i>Gidion’s Knot </i>is supported in part by the residents of Cuyahoga County through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></p><p class="ydpf52b3d8dMsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="ydpf52b3d8dMsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </p><div><br></div></div><br></div></div></body></html>