Here’s something to think about: Jerry and Tom takes place over a span of approximately ten years. In the 1998 film version (screenplay by Rick Cleveland; while the script has its different bits and moments, it remains fairly faithful to the play), Tom mentions that he usually makes one or two hits a year, three if it’s a busy year. Jerry isn’t impressed, Tom says it’s enough, and we’ve been given a piece of information not related in the play.

So they do the thing a couple of times a year, and that’s it (granted that we are talking about murder, here… but for the guys, it’s just business).  The rest of the year is spent—we might presume—raising the family, keeping up that regular-ish job at Kovachy Motors, hanging around restaurants, watching football games, and the like. (In fact, a couple of the scenes cut from CENTERSTAGE’s production do offer domestic encounters with both of the guys.) But we define them as hitmen. We receive a sense of the outside world, but what we see is this part of their job.

There are some questions, then (always with the question). What really defines Tom’s life or Jerry’s life? Is it the one to three executions per year, or is it the action that we don’t see? How do they work together, and how reconcile a so-average lifestyle with their particular assignments? And how, of course, does all of this fit into the Working production as a whole?

Just throwing the questions out there (I’ll certainly be mulling ‘em over, at any rate). Things to think about, and all.

-Kristi