A Clockwork Orange Plays Mar. 2-27

After 16 months performing outdoors and then the Jaeb Theater, a full two years after what was to be the original opening night of DOUBT, Jobsite finally returns home to the Shimberg for A Clockwork Orange (Mar. 2-27).

A Clockwork Orange lures audiences into a glass-edged, testosterone-filled underworld of a dystopian future. In 1962, the explosive tale of little Alex and his band of Droogs was a ground-breaking insta-classic teeming with sexuality and “a bit of the old ultra-violence.” The story feels as haunting today as when the book was published in 1962 and when Stanley Kubrick’s Oscar-nominated film caused a stir in 1971. Not to be confused with that translation, this adaptation for the stage was done by Anthony Burgess himself in a process that began in 1987.

A Clockwork Orange remains an unapologetic celebration of the human condition and individual freedoms.

This play has enjoyed a global reach and enduring success since publication, including a production by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1990 with music by Bono and the Edge, a Steppenwolf production starring Nick Offerman, and a 2018 Everyman production described by the Guardian as “a chilling, ultra violent cabaret.”

A Clockwork Orange has been licensed by the Burgess Foundation to companies with very different visions: from all-male casts to all-female casts, to an all-black cast — to put a fine point on it, this stage adaptation is in no way a transliteration of Kubrick’s film. We’re thrilled to welcome Dan Granke, who most recently served as combat choreographer and intimacy coordinator for Romeo & Juliet, to our director’s chair. Jeremy Douglass provides another amazing score, and our crack design team of Brian Smallheer (sets, projection), Jo Averill-Snell (lights), and Katrina Stevenson (costumes) are champing at the bit to get back to making magic in our “little room.” Eight of the ten performers make their Jobsite debuts, and some are even making Tampa debuts after relocation or auditioning in the area for the first time.

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