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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (June 8, 1984)
E N T E R T A IN M E N T deals openly with very real issues. The characters are a lesbian couple and they must deal with homophobia, both institu tionalized and internalized. Terry Baum has been directing, writing plays, and acting for seventeen years. Her most recent accomplishment was her one-woman show. Eqo Trip, o r I 'm Get tin g Mg S h it Together and D um ping It 4// O n You. which enjoyed a long run in San Francisco and also toured northern California. Prior to that, Baum and Caro line Meyers wrote Dos Lesbos. A Plag Bg. For and A bout Perverts. Baum co-star red in the original production, and this two-woman tour-de-force played in San Francisco for over a year. Dos Lesbos was nominated for a Cable Car Award (best theatrical production) and a Bay Area Theater Critics Award (best original dramatic script). Baum will perform Death's Angel at Judy's. 1431 ME Broadway, on June 18. at 8 pm. Tickets are $5 at the door. Reserva tions. call 222-1006. Vegetable Rag in SF L/G film fest bg Jag Bmœn Vegetable Rag. an animated film by Portlander Eve Sicular, has been accept ed by the San Francisco International Les bian and Gay Film Festival for showing during the festival’s eighth annual com petition. The San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival is a feature of the City’s Lesbian and Gay Pride Week celebrations and solicits films from gays and lesbians worldwide. A clay animated short two minutes in length, Vegetable Rag was a two-year project for Sicular, who also plays percus sion on the soundtrack. The film will be shown on Wednesday, June 20 at 1:30 pm at the Castro Theatre. Sicular, a freelance animator who grew up in New York City, made Vegetable Rag at the Carpenter Center in Cam bridge, Massachusetts while at university. She moved to Portland last summer to continue film studies in the Northwest “Any resemblance of the characters in the film to persons living or dead is purely intentional,” Sicular said recently in a con versation about Vegetable Rag. “The characters in Vegetable Rag? The cast includes a carrot with wraparound sun glasses, a sensuous dancing red cab bage, a stringbean bass player and a tomato lead singer. Oh, yes, and a spe cial guest appearance by Gumby and Pokey." THE PROM: a friendly formal M argo Tufo (I) and Terry Brown. Death's Angel Death and dying is not a subject that most people consider popular theatre fare. Terrv Baum has written a play which traces the pain, denial, guilt and accept ance of the survivor as she comes to grips with death and the reality of her "forbid den" relationship and its implications. Death’s Angel is a one-person play that Sister Tomato, a spicy '30s and ’40s swing band, will be performing at THE PROM: A FRIENDLY FORMAL, Friday, June 15, at the Pine Street Theater, 8:30 pm. Tickets are $3.50 in advance and $4.00 at the door. Call 223-9652 for ticket outlets or more information. M A R C H and R A L L Y Saturday June 16,1984 L G P ’84 C on tact Phone 231-5034 PUT POWER IN DIVERSITY PORTLAND O REG O N S ee C a le n d a r fo r s c h e d u le o f e v e n t s Just Out, June 8-June 22