Auditions for The Twentieth Century Way by Tom Jacobson, directed by Clyde Simon

This Sunday, October 17, 2021 at convergence-continuum

AVAILABLE ROLES:

Two 30-ish white males.

All roles in this production will receive a stipend.

Theater policy requires all production participants to be vaccinated against Covid

ABOUT THE PLAY:

The Twentieth Century Way 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 a movie audition. 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.

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, sexual identity, institutionalized corruption and the conscience of civil servants carrying out questionable duties. (Also been described as “hilariously funny and simultaneously deadly serious”)

ABOUT THE AUDITIONS:

Sunday, Oct 17 from 2-4p.m. at the Liminis Theater, 2438 Scranton Rd. Cleveland 44113 (Tremont neighborhood)

PRODUCTION DATES:  Dec 3 – 18 (eight performances, Thu-Sat evenings)

Needed info:

For further information and for scheduling an audition, contact the director, Clyde Simon at clydesimon@sbcglobal.net