Convergence-continuum Opens its 2011 Season At The Liminis Theatre 3/18

convergence-continuum, opens its 2011 Season at the Liminis theatre with the Ohio premiere of Valparaiso by Don DeLillo - a dark and comic probe into of media celebrity. This is acclaimed novelist Don DeLillo's third play and is a wickedly discomfiting and funny examination of our media-obsessed culture and our morbid fascination with sudden celebrity. Remember John and Lorena Bobbitt? Joe the Plumber? John and Cait? The list goes on.

Michael Majeski boards a plane on a routine business trip to Valparaiso, Indiana, but through a succession of blunders ends up in Valparaiso, Chile. In a series of intense and often surreal press, radio and TV news interviews, he tries to establish his identity as he moves from being a humorous media curiosity to a national media celebrity, until he reaches the pinnacle of prominence: the interrogation chamber of the tell-all daytime talk show. Here nothing remains unseen, and no dark personal crises can be left unspoken.

Valparaiso is directed by convergence-continuum's Artistic Director, Clyde Simon, and features actors Curt Arnold, Amy Bistok-Bunce, Lucy Bredeson-Smith, Darryl Dickenson, Clint Elston, Geoffrey Hoffman, Sarah Kunchik, Cory Molner and Lauren B. Smith.

Valparaiso opens Friday, Mar. 18 and runs at 8 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays through Apr. 16 at the Liminis, 2438 Scranton Rd., Cleveland, OH 44113. Tickets are $15 general admission, $12 for seniors (65+) and $10 for students. Reservations and information are available at 216-687-0074 and www.convergence-continuum.org.

Valparaiso is generously funded by the residents of Cuyahoga County through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture.