I have been Stage managing for the Convergence Continuum here in Cleveland. In doing so I was hoping to meet some people and network. I recently auditioned for a show there and got the role! Below is a little bit about this gem of a theatre and their goal. Also is a description of the show I will be in and the dates! Visit the website for ticket information!
ARTISTIC STATEMENTMost theatres are like mirrors, reflecting the familiar. You go to a show, you sit, you watch a play, and then you go home. You watch the actors from across the chasm of a "fourth wall." Everything is nicely laid out for you as you view what is comfortably, safely beyond that wall, confident that you will be made, indeed are expected, to understand the experience in terms of conventional logic.
Aren't we all tired of that by now?
What if theatre weren't a mirror reflecting the familiar, but an opening into unknown territory? What if there were no fourth wall? What if, instead of going to the theatre to watch a play, you crossed the threshold into the world of the play to experience it? Theatre that expands the imagination and extends the conventional boundaries of language, structure, space, and performance that challenges the conventional notions of what theatre is. What sort of theatre would this be?
We are convergence-continuum.
MILKMILKLEMONADE
by Joshua Conkel
directed by Cory Molner
August 17 - September 8
11-year-old Emory dreams of being a singer and a dancer. His plans to ribbon dance his way to television's "Reach For The Stars" are thwarted by his Nanna, who is determined to mold Emory into a normal American boy, and erase his days of Jazz hands and Nina Simone covers. A children's play definitely not for children, milkmilklemonade is a queer pondering of gender, identity, and the need to dream up a world where you can be who you are.
http://www.convergence-continuum.org/index.php?subject=season&sub=Milk
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