A reimagining of Ron Vawter’s 1992 performance Roy Cohn / Jack Smith. In his one-man show, Vawter presents sharply edged portraits of two gay Americans who achieved a certain notoriety before each died of AIDS in the 1980s. While attorney and right-wing activist Roy Cohn and avant-garde film and theater artist Jack Smith had little in common, Vawter postulates that both their lives were shaped—one might say warped—by the small-minded, homophobic society they lived in. The piece is an indirect indictment of that society and a look at two bizarrely fascinating gay individuals. This adaptation features archival material of Vawter speaking about his production and is the first re-staging of the work since his death in 1994.