JASON is a verbatim piece of theatre, using recorded delivery to stage PORTRAIT OF JASON, the seminal cult classic documentary about the Black Queer experience in 1960s NY. Filmed in a single, drunken night at an NYC apartment, Shirley Clarkes 1967 documentary "Portrait of Jason" is a shifting depiction of an enigmatic subject, Jason Holliday - in his own words a hustler and a houseboy, a stone whore and a male bitch, a vicious cunt and a sweet, sensitive child. Clarke and her boyfriend, the actor Carl Lee, feature as Jasons unseen and seemingly objective interlocutors, but as the night progresses, their personal entanglements with Jason become bitterly apparent.Clarkes documentary was a landmark moment in queer cinema and masterpiece of cinma vrit, which Ingmar Bergman described as the most extraordinary film I've seen in my life. JASON is a theatrical interpretation of Portrait of Jason exploring the enduring intrigue of the film: its radical subject, its unreliable creators, and the critical events that led up to, and got left out of, Clarkes portrait.