<html><head></head><body><div class="ydpf2d9c519yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;color:#050505"><span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">Convergence-continuum continues its 2022 season with <i>INSURRECTION:
HOLDING HISTORY</i>, by Robert O’Hara.</span></span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;color:#050505"><span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA"><br></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;color:#050505">Struggling with his
graduate thesis on slavery, Ron, a gay, black student at Columbia, attends a
family reunion to celebrate his great-great-grandfather T.J.’s 189th birthday.
Despite the fact that T.J. can’t move, hear, or speak, T.J. (given voice by the
spirit of Mutha Wit) convinces Ron to take him back to his old home in
Virginia. Fracturing the space-time continuum as they go further south, they
arrive on the eve of Nat Turner’s doomed 1831 uprising to see Nat Turner
himself racing through the woods. Encouraged to understand his ‘past’ in order
to understand his ‘present’ and the perception-altering confrontation with what
it means to be ‘free’, Ron discovers that how the authenticity of history
unfolds depends on the perception of the storyteller.</span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;color:#050505"><span><p class="ydpdd042d94MsoNormal"><span>Winner of the
Oppenheimer Award for Best New American Play in 1996, Insurrection: Holding History is
a fanciful dramatization of Black history by multi award-winning playwright and
director Robert O’Hara. Written during his artist-in-residency at the NY Public
Theater, the play garnered immediate acclaim for the burgeoning playwright
earning comparisons to a cross between Roots and The
Wizard of Oz. The San
Francisco Examiner called it “One seriously hilarious and
hilariously serious play… remarkably exciting, deeply provocative, [and]
comically profound.” Wonderfully witty with time-bending fantastical
turns, <i>Insurrection: Holding
History</i> is a wild, thrilling ride between past and present.</span></p></span></span></div>
<p class="ydpf1524f56MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;color:#050505">Insurrection: Holding
History is directed by Jeannine Gaskin. The cast features Andrew Pope (TJ)
Chelsea Anderson (Izzie Mae), Isaiah Betts (Hammet), Kadijah Wing (Mutha Wit),
Laprise Johnson (Gertha), Matthew Raybeam (Nat Turner), Mike Frye (Cop,
Detective, etc.), Sydney Smith (Octavia/Katie Lynn), and Wesley Allen (Ron).</span></p>
<div><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;color:#050505"><i>Insurrection: Holding
History</i> opens Friday, October 14 and runs Thu-Sat at 8 p.m. through November 5
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. </span></div><div><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;color:#050505">Tickets and information are available
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