convergence-continuum Presents the 2017 NEOMFA Playwrights Festival February 9-18

convergence-continuum presents two world-premiere plays by local graduate-student playwrights at the 2017 NEOMFA Playwrights Festival. The Festival features one full-length play by second-year grad students Katie Wallace, Renee Schilling and Rob Daniels, and a full-length play by final-year MFA candidate JC Cifranic. These plays are part of a three-year intensive program of study under playwright and Cleveland State University professor Mike Geither, and are co-produced by convergence-continuum and the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts (NEOMFA) in Creative Writing consortium.

This will be the sixth year convergence-continuum has mounted the Festival at its performance space, the Liminis Theater, 2438 Scranton Rd, Cleveland 44113 in the historic Tremont neighborhood.

Feb 9, 10, 11: The Darkness by Katie Wallace, Renee Schilling and Rob Daniels. Thu-Sat at 8 pm. The Darkness is a darkly comic fable following the travails of Duncan as he journeys through a circus, suburbia and a sinister office building. Duncan is a believer in The Light, an organization which may or may not be a cult. As he attempts to convert human cannonballs and cookie-baking housewives alike, he discovers the true light may rest in the restorative power of Phil Collins' songs, pink lemonade and whoopee cushions - but not necessarily in that order.

Feb 16, 17 18: Sexual Politics by JC Cifranic. Thu-Sat at 8 pm. In Sexual Politics, the Deputy Mayor of Vienna is trying to clean-up the morals of the city. When Isabella's gay brother is arrested, she has to rely on unlikely friends to keep him out of jail in this topical, modern adaptation of William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure.

The 2017 NEOMFA Playwrights Festival opens Thursday, Feb. 9 and runs at 8 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays through Feb. 18 at the Liminis Theater, 2438 Scranton Rd., Cleveland, OH 44113. Tickets are $10 general and $5 for students. Tickets and information at convergence-continuum.org or 216-687- 0074.