<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="ydpdf6f4976MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background:white"><b><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">GIDION’S KNOT </span></i></b><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">OPENS FRIDAY, MARCH 20</span></b></p>
<p class="ydpdf6f4976MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">AT CONVERGENCE-CONTINUUM </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"><br>
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<p class="ydpdf6f4976MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Gidion’s Knot </span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-style:italic">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="ydpdf6f4976MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-style:italic"> </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="ydpdf6f4976MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">
<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>
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<p class="ydpdf6f4976MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">“…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:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"> —Washington Post.<br>
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<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>
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<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="ydpdf6f4976MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"><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="ydpdf6f4976MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"> </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" fg_scanned="1">convergence-continuum.org</a> and 216-687-0074.</span></b></p>
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<p class="ydpdf6f4976MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-style:italic">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:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></p>
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