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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (July 21, 1995)
\ f . f :f J I t k i i T li. 26 ▼ July 21. 1965 ▼ Just out PEACE O F MIND WITH MARK HUCKINS M K & M in ib lin d ‘ FREE M EA SU R IN G FREE IN STA LLA TIO N A W ise R eprise Not valid with any other oiler Audiences are offered a second chance to see triangle productions !’ lauded staging 0/Jeffrey Expires 7 /3 I /9S Founder M c Ü ’M i n ib l i n d • Pleated Shades •Silhouettes • Duettes • Wood Blinds •Vignettes •Verticals Portland e Beaverton Washington Co. Lake Oswego • West Linn • Clackamas C o .* Tualatin by C. Jay Wilson Jr. Clark Cty Gresham • Happy Vancouver e( Valley; _ (206)256-6622 Multnomah Co. 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If you missed triangle produc is Sterling, Jeffrey’s best friend and unsolicited tions!’ staging of Paul Rudnick’s Obie giver of advice, who systematically offers up a award-winning play this winter, certainly series of insolent one-liners—a continuous com you observed one of the advertisements that mentary on Jeffrey’s dejected mood. Playwright featured underwear-clad Rob Buckmaster reclin Paul Rudnick created the role to ensure that as the ing atop the bold block letters of the play’s title. play introduces a serious issue, it is counterbal Perhaps you’ve seen the trailers for the major anced with comedic insight. The part of Sterling is motion picture due to be released in September. portrayed by Michael Mendelson, who deftly (You may even have been lucky enough to catch handles the character’s sophistication with enough élan to shame the most pretentious interior de signer. h e a t e i * In the supporting cast, acting her way through the play’s more colorful characters, Sarah Lucht commands the stage whenever she sets foot upon the special clandestine screening at this year’s it. A consummate performer, Lucht transforms the Oregon Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.) If you’re audience into believers as she assumes the role of still bemused, you’ve probably been cloistered in Debra Moorhouse, a post-modem evangelist with a small box or too engrossed in the O. J. Simpson the charismatic cure for the world’s emotional judicial circus, but triangle productions! is giving maladies. you one more chance to catch a performance of Jeffrey's strength is in its levity. Although the Jeffrey this summer. play concerns itself with rather serious issues, it Due to the tremendous audience response to its never entertains them at length or with much depth, production of Jeffrey earlier this year, the company instead it grants the opened a revival of the ’s array o f characters audience comic re show on July 14 for a lief from life’s stark limited one-month run. range from apparitions o f realities. Rudnick The play, directed by Mother Theresa to the Lower never attem pts to Jon Kretzu, recently re mirror life in Jeffrey, Manhattan Gentlemen ’s ceived five Drammy he merely attempts nominations and two Masturbation Society. to shed a humorous well-deserved awards light upon it with the hope of possibly illuminating for supporting performances by Michael Mendelson some of life’s absurdities—it is this lighthearted and Sarah Lucht. approach to life’s difficulties that makes the play Jeffrey features Rob Buckmaster (in the title so enjoyable. role) as a gay man in the age of AIDS who, One could criticize the weak, superficial devel disgusted with demystifying negotiations of safer opment of the relationship between Jeffrey and sex, decides to give up sex completely—a decision Steve (it is at best barely believable), but the that is immediately tested when he meets Steve ultimate believability of Jeffrey's characters was (Michael Menger) at the gym. Jeffrey’s consider ation of his personal pact of celibacy ends with the not of primary importance to Rudnick in compos knowledge that Steve is HIV positive and thus ing the play. He allows us to see just enough of creates the central conflict of the play. The dia ourselves in the characters to unfold a simple logue established between the audience and moral lesson: Life should be lived and celebrated, Jeffrey’s consciousness is interrupted by a series not feared or lamented. of unrelated situations that serve to elucidate his emotional paralysis, and consequently bring to the Jeffrey runs Thursday to Saturday through stage an assortment of characters that parody many Aug. 12 at the Artists Repertory' Theater. YWCA, facets of gay life in the 1990s. Jeffrey's array of t i l l SW lOthAve., thirdfloor. tickets are $15 and characters range from apparitions of Mother are available from Fastixx 224-8499, Jelly Bean Theresa to the Lower Manhattan Gentlemen’s card shop. 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