<html><head></head><body><div class="ydpf16b9bb2yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style=""><div style=""><p class="ydpcc415dbdMsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; line-height: 115%;"><font size="3"><b style=""><i style="">DOG ACT</i></b><b style=""> OPENS FRIDAY MARCH 25, AT CONVERGENCE-CONTINUUM</b><b style=""> </b></font></p>
<p class="ydpcc415dbdMsoNormal" style=""><font size="3">Convergence-continuum kicks off
its 2022 season, “Societies in Question” with the Cleveland Premiere of <i>Dog Act</i>, by Liz Duffy Adams.</font></p>
<p class="ydpcc415dbdMsoNormal" style=""><span style="color: black; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><font size="3" style="background-color: inherit;">Post-apocalyptic wilderness was never funnier. <i>Dog Act</i>
follow the adventures of Zetta Stone, a traveling performer, and her companion
Dog (a young man undergoing a voluntary species demotion) as they wander
through the former northeastern United States. Zetta, Dog and their little
troupe are on their way to a gig in China, assuming they can find it...and
survive the journey. A theatrical, darkly comic variation on the classic
doomsday genre, with five original songs.</font></span></p>
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<p class="ydpcc415dbdMsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0.5in;"><font size="3">“A fresh, word-drunk
comedy by Liz Duffy Adams. Her deftly experimental yet highly entertaining <i>Dog
Act </i>is riddled with Shakespearean resonance, conjuring a post-apocalyptic
and post-literate world. Yet, it's as keenly intelligent as a comedy by
language poet Mac Wellman. <i>Dog Act </i>introduces a playwright who has a lot
to say, though in a hip, street-smart way – that is, obliquely.<b> …</b>Analyzing
Adams’ virtuosic technique tends to deaden its exhilarating effect. Her
approach is light, her tone buoyant, and the echoing references to Shakespeare
or the Bible or “Peter Pan” come and go in a flash, like lightning. The
dialogue doesn't provoke the listener to struggle to make sense of the various
argots; instead it shocks the listener wide awake to enjoy the malleability,
the beauty and the strangeness of the words by which we communicate – or
don’t.” –Anne Marie Welsh,<i> San Diego Union-Tribune</i><a href="http://www.utsandiego.com/uniontrib/20051011/news_1c11moxie.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>.</i></a></font></p>
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<p class="ydpcc415dbdMsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0in;"><font size="3"><i>Dog Act</i> is directed
by David L. Munnell and features actors Denise Astorino, Andrea Belser
McCormick, Wesley Allen, Emileo Fernandez, Mike Frye, and Kate Smith, with live
music by Jonah Raider-Roth. Scenography by Cory Molner and Scott Zolkowski.</font></p>
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<font size="3"><i style=""><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Dog Act</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> opens Friday, March 25 and runs Thu-Sat at 8 p.m. through April 16 at
convergence-continuum’s Liminis Theater, 2438 Scranton Rd., Cleveland, OH 44113
in the historic Tremont neighborhood. Tickets are $23 general admission, $18
for seniors and $18 for students. Tickets and information are available at
www.convergence-continuum.org and 216-687-0074.</span></font></div><br></div><div style="font-size: 13px;"><br></div><div class="ydpf16b9bb2signature" style="font-size: 13px;"><div style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Cory Molner<div>Executive Artistic Director, <span style="font-style:italic;">convergence-continuum Theater</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-style:italic;">(He/Him/His)</span></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></body></html>