WOLVES Opens Tonight at convergence-continuum

convergence-continuum, continues its 2015 Season with the Ohio premiere of Steve Yockey's urban fable, Wolves. This "deconstruction" of the Little Red Riding Hood story is a darkly comic, predatory fairy tale for adults that delves into the impacts of sex and fear in modern culture, the comfort of lava lamps, and the dangers of a handy axe.

WOLVES takes place during a long and eventful night at the apartment of Ben and Jack (formerly lovers, now roommates). Ben, clearly never the most stable of young men, has recently moved from a small town to the big cit y, where he develops a full-blown paranoia about the place where he lives, which he thinks of as the "deep, dark forest," and has an outrageous fear of the "wolves" that prowl it. To taunt the clingy, jealous Ben, and to prove that the city isn't what Ben imagines it to be, Jack brings home a "wolf" from a bar one night. Though a series of misunderstandings, things turn violent (an axe is involved) and it's up to the icy and bitingly funny female narrator to guide us through to the end of this postmodern fracturing of the Red Riding Hood yarn.

WOLVES is directed by convergence-continuum's Cory Molner (MilkMilkLemonade, Based on a Totally True Story, etc.), and features company actors Beau Reinker and Eric Sever, and con-con newcomers Wesley Allen and Theresa Pedone.

WOLVES opens tonight, May 8 and runs Thu-Sat at 8 pm through May 30 at the Liminis theater, 2438 Scranton Rd. Tickets are $15 general admission, $12 seniors (65+), $10 students. Reservations and information at convergence-continuum.org and 216-687-0074.

About the Playwright - Steve Yockey is a Los Angeles based writer with plays produced throughout the country, Europe, and Asia. Afterlife, Octopus, Large Animal Games, CARTOON, Subculture, Very Still & Hard to See, The Fisherman's Wife, and Wolves are published and available from Samuel French. Last season, Pluto opened in a National New Play Network rolling world premiere at Actor's Express (Atlanta), Know Theatre (Cincinnati), Forum Theatre (Washington D.C.), and Orlando Shakespeare Theatre (Orlando). Steve is a Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude graduate of the University of Georgia and holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts (2008). He was one of two writers selected for the first US/Australia playwright exchange in February 2013, sponsored by NNPN and Playwriting Australia, and is the recipient of the 2013 LA Weekly Playwriting Award for his ghost story Very Still & Hard to See. Steve is currently adapting Zenescope's Monster Hunters' Survival Guide for Relativity Television and writing/executive producing the new MTV dark comedy Self-Promotion.

About the Play - Wolves opened in a rolling world premiere with support from the National New Play Network's Continued Life of New Plays Fund at Celebration Theatre in Los Angeles (March 8, 2012), Actors Express Theatre Company in Atlanta (Nov 10, 2012), Den of Muses in New Orleans (Nov 15, 2012) and Stray Cat Theatre Company in Tempe, AZ (Nov 30, 2012). It has subsequently been produced in Santa Ana, CA (Theatre Out), Ferndale, MI (Ringwald Theatre), Indianapolis (Theatre on the Square) and Pittsburg (Carnegie Mellon Univ.). The convergence-continuum production will be its Ohio premiere. Wolves is produced through special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.

About convergence-continuum - Wolves, the company's 65th production, is the second of six in the 2015 Season (our fourteenth). The company's season runs from February (during which we stage the NEOMFA Playwrights Festival) through December. Many of the cast and crew of Wolves have been involved in previous convergence-continuum productions in many and various capacities. The company seeks to create a core ensemble that continues to work together over the long term in exploring and developing its artistic voice, and performance and production practices, to create up-close, environmentally staged productions that challenge the status quo and extend the boundaries of theatre.

convergence-continuum was founded in 2001 by Clyde Simon (Artistic Director) and Brian Breth. The company's artistic home, in the Tremont neighborhood of Cleveland, is the Liminis, an intimate, versatile, storefront performance space, with maximum seating of 40-50 depending on the set-up for each show. The company produces alternative/experimental theatre work by living playwrights, and completely transforms the Liminis for each show, immersing audiences into the world of the play in up-close productions.

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