Jerry and Tom
Image: GiGee Photography
American writer, Rick Cleveland, has enjoyed a successful career, which includes scriptwriting for television cult programs like Mad Men and House of Cards. This month, Insomniac Theatre will be bringing his 1990’s play turned film, Jerry and Tom, to black comedy life at The Exchange Hotel.
The story was inspired by Cleveland’s time working as a barman at an Ohio club/steakhouse comedy club. After spending time at the bar, Cleveland befriended some of the regulars before learning of their involvement in a string of gangland killings. Cleveland was forced to reconsider his criminal ring of friends.
Actor Boris Brkic plays the role of Tom, who is fast to commend Cleveland’s creative approach. “He’s an intelligent writer” Brkic says, “He doesn’t do the obvious thing. There’s an innate cleverness in the way he constructs things.”
Directed by Maggie Scott, Jerry and Tom promises to be a entertaining night full of violent laughs. “It’s smart, it’s sharp, it’s clever, it’s well observed and it’s pointedly written,” Brkic says, “I guess in the juxtaposition of words that he uses, along with the actions. You get remarkably mundane things being discussed while really morbid things are being done”.
9-30 April, The Craftsman’s Bar, The Exchange Hotel, Balmain. Tickets $30 Adult, $25 concession, www.trybooking.com/116838 or (02) 9555 9009
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