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You might have seen Scott Turner Schofield in the much-lauded Becoming a Man in 127 Easy Steps, his solo stage performance that sold out Atlanta’s 7 Stages for a number of performances last fall. Schofield has garnered much acclaim around Georgia as well the nation, topping year-end lists from Southern Voice and Creative Loafing to the nationally published Advocate. In just a few hours, though, the stage for this transgender artist is about to get much bigger. Collaborating with other artists as far flung as Los Angeles, Austrailia, and El Salvador, Schofield will take part in 24 Hours 24 Artists — a worldwide, online collaborative performance designed to ring in 2009. Check out the website to find out about the other participating artists, but don’t delay — the performance begins at 11 p.m. tonight.

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Earlier this year, 7 Stages‘ first production of Scott Turner Schofield’s one-man show Becoming a Man in 127 Easy Steps sold out two performances on Super Bowl Sunday. That impressive statistic begs the question, what kind of man puts on performance art during the Super Bowl, anyway?

Schofield’s show provides answers that are at once engaging and incomplete. “Becoming” a man may be more of a journey for Schofield than for most guys, as he happens to be an actor, writer and female-to-male transgender person (not necessarily in that order). Becoming a Man offers a playful, kaleidoscopic evening of Schofield’s observations, memories and even some physical acrobatics that correspond to Schofield’s balancing act as he transitions from one gender to the other.

Directed by Steve Bailey, Becoming a Man may be the least visually static one-person show I’ve ever seen. The audience enters the small Back Stage space at 7 Stages to find swaths of white and red fabric dangling in the performance area. We hear Schofield’s recorded voice, see projections of embryonic ultrasound footage and realize that all along, Schofield has been hanging in a fetal position, hidden inside the red fabric. He shifts within the material, partially emerges and “swims” in suspension, while meditating on the in utero causes of transgender issues.

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(Photo by Elliat Graney-Sauke)

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Today’s Air Loaf features CL’s Chanté LaGon and Curt Holman chatting about Scott Turner Schofield’s one-man show Becoming a Man in 127 Easy Steps. (Through Aug. 24. 7 Stages, 1105 Euclid Ave.)

Air Loaf is broadcast weekdays on 1690 WMLB-AM at approximately 8:10 a.m., 12:20 p.m. and 6:20 p.m.

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