j u s t o u t ▼ J a n u a ry 5 , 1 9 9 6 ▼ 2 5 S ex + D eath + R eligion = D angerous T heater Infinity Tattoo HIV UNIVERSITY Direct from New York City, Purgatorio Ink presents its iconoclastic Suddenly Something Recklessly Gay January 8 ▼ HIV & You. by C. Jay Wilson Jr. January 1 1 anarchic theater amidst the rise of Islamic funda ietzsche’s vexatious The Gay Sci mentalism. He was exiled in 1979 after the Iranian ence contains the aphorism “The Revolution and the subsequent installation of the secret of reaping the greatest fruit Ayatollah Khomeini and moved to New York to fulness and the greatest enjoyment continue his career of contumacy in the United from life is to live dangerously!” Babilla continued to stir up controversy as Most artists would certainly agree with States. Nietzsche, his subject matter freely explored homosexuality yet those artists who actually strive to ascend to and a host of social and sexual taboos. the Nietzschean apogee of iconoclastic dissen The controversial subject matter of Bani’s sion are few. Enter Assurbanipal Babilla, the plays has been likened to that of Nabokov’s, and prophet of the perilous, who brings to the Pacific his influence upon artistic communities and the intelligentsia in his native Iran was compared to the legacy here of Andy Warhol. Bani’s most recent autobiographical composition, Suddenly Something Recklessly Gay, employs the stark minimalism of Beckett’s plays and combines it Northwest for the first time the offense of his with the dark dementia of Genet’s diseased world. controversial company Purgatorio Ink in its per The plot involves formance of Sud child abuse, incest denly Something and murder as ex Recklessly Gay or perienced by a four- Cirque de Ca Ca, member circus fam Jan. 22-24 at the ily on the eve of the C linton Street Second Coming. Theater. The pro Challenging con gram is part of the ventional percep Portland Institute tions of familial re for Contemporary lationships, Bani’s A rt’s 1995-96 play offers an ex season. amination of the Assurbanipal nature of social au B abilla, known thority and its ini simply as Bani, tiation of violence combines a formal and abuse in a world stag ecraft and sustained by misan classically struc thropy. tured texts with el Suddenly Some em ents draw n thing R ecklessly from sym bolist Gay was produced im agery and originally by La stand-up comedy MaMa, New York to communicate City’s theater fa ideas that wrestle mous for bringing with themes of ho to life brilliant un mosexuality, reli derground works of a more absurdist inclination. gion and sexual grotesqueries. His work force This play’s exploration into the obscene promises fully attacks the moral and social constructs that to be an experience that has the unique ability to define the delicate matrix of our society, estab simultaneously delight and horrify. lishing him as the avant-garde Momus of contem porary U.S. theater. Suddenly Something Recklessly Gay runs Jan. A former Protestant minister who studied the 22-24 at the Clinton Street Theatre, ology in Beirut, Lebanon, Bani found it increas 2522 SE Clinton St., in Portland. ingly dangerous to exist as an Assyrian, Christian, Tickets are $14, call 242-1419. homosexual playwright producing his brand of with Turn McPherson. w January ^ <*<' < ** H! ¿T' ♦ Baths - J . , * ,* '< & ’• & W ' r ‘ * 15 ed by HIV. Free getting what you HIVU. need. 6:30 pm. January HIVU Infoline at 18 Treatment Update: what s new, pro tease inhibitors and 3TC. Reservations: 503-223-6339, ext. 111. 2138 E Burnside (503)231-4777 Call for an appointment HIV University is funded by the Ryan White Care Act (Title 1 ) I g V ' ' . ' < ,, * > V , s, < ï, with and affect Resources 101: C lasses start at heater — to train, inform and support Housing and Social Security: people living N 1 > A course o f Medical Basics: classes designed > ' il*, - V «/>•' '' ' ♦ Kitchens 4422 S W Corbett Portland.OR 503 / 224-4233 ♦ Tile S h o w ro o m Hours 9AM-5PM Monday-Saturday and by A p p o i n t m e n t