![]() ![]() We offered it to a lot of people, and they all turned it down. “It wasn’t a good fit for him, so we started trying to find a replacement. “I happened because William Petersen, an active member of Steppenwolf who did the part in Chicago and was superb, didn’t want to do it in New York,” explained the author-actor. Actually, truth to tell, it’s a job nobody wanted. “The good people of Big Cherry,” he shoots back. The Minutes is set in the small town of Big Cherry, and presiding over the city council meeting in a pompous and controlling fashion is one Mayor Superba, otherwise known as Our Playwright. (Helpfully, Letts names his characters according to their plot functions.) Peel peels back the truth and discovers what Mr. It seems he’s been eliminated-just how eliminated remains to be seen. Carp (Ian Barford), is missing in action, along with the minutes of the last meeting. Peel, the city council freshman who has questions about the last city council meeting, primarily because one of his colleagues, a Mr. The Minutes has been cast with a mix of Steppenwolf and Broadway actors-plus Noah Reid, late of Schitt’s Creek and the Hammer replacement, who plays a Mr. Letts wrote this play during the 2016 political campaign at the first flicker of Trumpism, and you can sense his blood boiling. It’s a satire of small-town bureaucracy that grows progressively darker as it careens toward a frenzied finale. These days you’ll find both Letts in full sway at Studio 54 in The Minutes, a 2018 Pulitzer finalist and a 2022 Best Play Tony contender. A friend of mine calls it ‘crop rotation.’” I don’t really consider myself more one than the other. “Whenever I’m writing, I think, ‘Oh, God! It would be nice just to be an actor right now and not have to worry about all the things people will say and do.’ Then, when I’m acting, I think, ‘Oh, wouldn’t it be nice to be writing alone in my office?’ I’m very fortunate that I can do both. “I’ve done them both so long now I don’t know which one takes precedence over the other,” he admits. Letts may be best known right now as an actor-he’s burning up the tracks on stage and screen-but personally the 56-year-old Oklahoman finds the two roles mesh together seamlessly. ![]()
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