<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><p class="ydpe3169574MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">AUDITIONS FOR <i>THE TWENTIETH CENTURY WAY </i>BY TOM
JACOBSON, DIRECTED BY CLYDE SIMON</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
<div style="margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: center; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">SUNDAY,
OCT 17, starting 2pm at convergence-continuum (2438 Scranton Rd, Cleveland 44113)</span></div><p class="ydpe3169574MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: center; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
<p class="ydpe3169574MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 6pt 0in 0in; text-align: center; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">Roles
for two 30ish, white males</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
<p class="ydpe3169574MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">The
Twentieth Century Way </span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">by Tom Jacobson is a two-person play and a real tour
de force for two good actors. The two characters are themselves actors,
Brown and Warren, and the play is based on the true story of two actual actors
who hired themselves out in 1914 to the Long Beach, CA police department to
entrap gay men in private clubs and public restrooms for “oral sodomy.” But
it’s a fictionalized, very theatrical version, starting with the two actors
Brown and Warren waiting backstage before an audition for a movie. It turns out
to be a long wait and to pass the time, Warren challenges Brown to an
improvisation – which becomes the story of entering the hidden world of
restrooms and private parties (mostly the latter) and the interactions with the
men they ensnare.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
<p class="ydpe3169574MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">Over
the course of the “improvisation” they each play 6 – 10 roles, dropping in and
out of character (i.e. back to Brown and Warren) in rapid succession. The play
is as much about the nature of acting (both onstage and off) as it is about the
relationship between the two men and sexual identity, institutionalized
corruption and the conscience of civil servants carrying out questionable
duties. (Also been described as “hilariously funny and simultaneously deadly
serious”)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
<p class="ydpe3169574MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">PLEASE
CONTACT CLYDE SIMON AT </span><a href="mailto:CSIMON@CONVERGENCE-CONTINUUM.ORG" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">CSIMON@CONVERGENCE-CONTINUUM.ORG</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"> FOR FURTHER DETAILS AND FOR SETTING UP AUDITION TIMES.</span></p>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">Another of Jacobson's plays, <i>Ouroboros, </i>had been produced at con-con before. His plays have a very shrewd, intricate,
layered, meta-theatrical approach to bending and blending the real and unreal.
Challenging, and really good stuff!</span></div><br></div></div></body></html>