DOG ACT OPENS FRIDAY MARCH 25, AT CONVERGENCE-CONTINUUM 

Convergence-continuum kicks off its 2022 season, “Societies in Question” with the Cleveland Premiere of Dog Act, by Liz Duffy Adams.

Post-apocalyptic wilderness was never funnier.  Dog Act 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.

“A fresh, word-drunk comedy by Liz Duffy Adams. Her deftly experimental yet highly entertaining Dog Act 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. Dog Act introduces a playwright who has a lot to say, though in a hip, street-smart way – that is, obliquely. …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, San Diego Union-Tribune.

Dog Act 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.