convergence-continuum
Cross the threshold to Cleveland's up-close, and OUT there theatre.
2025 NEOMFA Playwrights Festival
February 13-22, 2025
Thursday-Saturday at 7:30 PM
See what the next Generation of playwrights is up to!
For the fourteenth year, convergence-continuum continues its successful collaboration with the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program.
Week 1 & 2 (February 13-15th, 20-22nd at 8PM) features the following full-length show:
Executing Eve by Eric Mansfield
It’s 2034 and Governor Kaiser has returned Ohio to town square hangings as part of his new speedy-and-public execution policy for convicted killers given death sentences. That means a midnight death in the Medina town square is just hours away for Eve, who was found guilty of poisoning the judge she believes is responsible for her sister’s death after he rejected pleas from Eve and doctors hoping to intervene during a high-risk pregnancy. With crowds gathering outside the jail and little hope of an11th hour reprieve from the U.S. Supreme Court, Eve plays the one card she has up her sleeve in hopes of saving her life while also using what may be her final hours alive to face the choices that have made her the face of futuristic American justice.
About con-con:
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?
