[NEohioPAL] Seeking brave performers for New Fringe Show at the Borderlight Festival (July 26 - 28)

[Connor J. Hogan]

Seeking brave and dynamic Performers, Improvisers, Clowns and Actors for
World Premiere of What is the Butt Game? produced as part of the
Borderlight Festival (July 26 - 28)


To be considered, please fill out the form below and submit a recording of
yourself retelling a childhood memory. Make it as detailed and as vivid as
possible. No more than two minutes.


https://forms.gle/fX3gJ29sbwfBSQi4A


Actors will be compensated $100 per performance (potentially up to four
performances)


About What is the Butt Game?


In 1989, when Savannah was three years old, her daycare was shut down by
the Child Protection Agency under suspicion of child abuse. The primary
investigator was particularly interested in something a child called “the
butt game”, and interviewed many of the kids and parents to try to find out
how it was played. This investigation was part of the Satanic Panic; a fear
sweeping the nation over the idea of Satan-worshipping sex cults that loved
to abuse and ritually murder toddlers. All these accusations later proved
false, but in the late 1980s, police and social workers were sure that
Satanic cults were operating right under their noses. After Savannah’s
daycare was shut down, the parents stayed in touch; trading kids back and
forth for sleepovers, hosting barbecues in the summer, and camping together
on the shores of Lake Michigan. The accusation of Satanic abuse was the
very thing that brought the group closer and made them into a chosen
family.


With the help of collaborator Connor Hogan and an ensemble of local actors,
Savannah attempts to answer the question: why did CPS see danger where
Savannah saw love and community? How much of truth is objective? And what
actually was the butt game?
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