Convergence-continuum continues it’s 2023 season, with EXIT, PURSUED BY A BEAR by Lauren Gunderson.

Nan has decided to teach her abusive husband Kyle a lesson. With the help of her friend Simon (acting as her emotional -- and actual -- cheerleader) and a stripper named Sweetheart, she tapes Kyle to a chair and forces him to watch as they reenacts scenes from their painful past. In the piece de resistance, they plan to cover the room in meat and honey so Kyle will be mauled by a bear. Through this night of emotional trials and ridiculous theatrics, Nan and Kyle are both freed from their past in this smart, dark revenge comedy.

This is the 1st play in the Shakespeare Cycle, a series of contemporary comedies based on Shakespeare's plays. See Toil and Trouble and The Taming for the other plays in this series.

"If the Coen Brothers decided to set a feminist revenge tale in Atlanta and sprinkle it with Dixie Chicks pixie dust, it might look something like Exit, Pursued by a Bear, a raucous comedy of friendship, domestic abuse, and performance-as-catharsis."- ArtsCritic Atlanta

"It is a well-balanced mix of serious subject matter and laughter. The play is real and highly unlikely, but it's the highly unlikely parts that make the on-stage witnessing of the real-life, depressing, heart breaking horror of domestic violence possible... It was perfect." - Community Educator for the Women's Resource Center to End Domestic Violence

"Bear is raw and hilarious." - American Theatre Magazine

Exit, Pursued by a Bear opens Friday, August 11  and runs Thu-Sat at 8 p.m, through September 2 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.