NY International Fringe Festival: the Twentieth-Century Way September 17, 2010

Based on a little-known incident in Los Angeles history, in which city officials hired actors to entrap homosexuals for "social vagrancy" in the public restrooms of 1914 Long Beach, this labyrinthine thrill ride blurs the lines between actor and character, the entrapper and the entrapped, with its breathtaking, and ultimately shocking, theatrical sleight-of-hand.