\
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.
Solem
Marion Co
Salem • Mari
(503)292-6464 (503)636-6588 (503)667-0354 (503)363-7993
©Id QL o WN $ARTy ^AcliAqE
iOM Us FOR AN EVBMNG YOU*lI
A lways R fmember
Next SHOW TIM E at D a r c e lle 's
(beverage not Included)
L o o k
XV
J u
s t
f o r
o
u
t
Vs
21
N K X T IS S I KS J U F Y
Enjoy Uve Jazz at Hobo’s
(Includes BEVERAG E of your choice)
a n d
When your evening Is over our
llmo will take you home
(
(one location only)
TWO PEOPLE....$90.00 • FOUR PE0PLE....$140.00
SIX PEOPLE....$190.00
A u c;.
4
J. u
f y
d k a d f in f
i
o r
A
i k
;.
4
20
is su i
:)
Packages not Including llmo available for $25 per
person, (available at all three locations.)
Reservations: Call (503) 243-5530
----- ¿ f’r a CV'tvwj' /V e t /x o /k c /x c / ----
DcwceLLe XV P roductions pnesems
The Foutneenrb Annual
FemMagnifique
la
"Em 20's and 30’s Inremmnal Pageanr
A pageanr to choose
The owst glamunous female uupensonam in me would
Sunday Sepr. 3, 1995
D ocks open ar 7 pen Pageanr ar 8 pen $18
MonrgoeneKy Paul? • 2701 NW Vaughn
F or Tickers call (503) 222-5338
Choosing the
right mortgage
is as important
as choosing
the right home!
Mortgage Com pany
♦ *
Lynn D efrees
Mortgage Loan Officer
Office: (503) 245-S640
Residence: (503) 697-SI 79
Pager (503) 299-0777
PHOTO BY
l i t Our llmo will pick you up & It’s DINNER at The
Fox & Hounds (Includes beverage of your choice)
Cast members o f Jeffrey: (from left) Aaron Baas, Tim Delaney, Sarah Lucht, Michael M enger
and Rob Buckmaster
tertaining versatile ensemble of supporting actors.
s there any one in Portland who hasn’t heard
Periodically appearing among these characters
of Jeffrey? 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. Music Millennium and the triangle
Masturbation Society—all played by a highly en-
productions! box office 246-8967.
I
Jeffrey