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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 2005)
40 jUSt OUt ♦ October 21, 2005 eatingout eatingout eatingout eatingout DIVERSIONS ................ ▼................ M e B ottom , You T apas ? Portland playwright Sam Gregory analyzes repression in The Confessions of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Oct. 29 and 31. Sunday- Thursday 5:OO-9:OOpm 1230 nw hoyt I portland Friday-Saturday 5:00-10:00pm 503 241-8800 www.fratellicurina. corn Oh m'god! I just remembered something! “I told Perry I would make dinner reservations at one of our favorite queer-friendly restaurants today!” PARISI'S S One Year Anniversary $1.00 off Any Size Gelato October 18-19-20 4605 NE Fremont . 503-287-7444 Open Mon-Thurs until 9pm I:ri & Sat until 10pm • Sun until 8pm Pizza for the people. fortland's fjfyest f jo nd- fossed £ jourmet [\tzal 40* loppings to choose front six sauces and five sizes, iron a single. OHowade slice up io 4 Jimbo ft party pizza /n the heart of the f~Jawthorne shopping district Featuring. NW nacrobrews on tap 8 desserts > renowned local bakerv Piece of Cake pot SE Hawthorne Blvd. * 503.z31.0901 • Delivery available in $ inland after >pm Dramatist plots additions to his queer canon sion of a passionate nature, it is easy to start seeing parallels between the closet, the ex-gay movement and various sexual hypocrisies,” Gregory points out. “A major goal of mine has been to illustrate in an exciting and absorbing way that repression of all kinds leads to horror of all kinds.” Confessions plays 7 p.m. Oct. 29 at White Eagle Saloon, 836 N. Russell St., and 5:30 and 7 p.m. Oct. 31 at Kennedy School, 5736 N.E. 33rd Ave. The all-ages performances are free, and the latter date begins with a family-friendly trick-or-treating party. For details visit www.rncmenamins.com. —Timothy Krause Keep an eye on hometown gay playwright William “Sam” Gregory. He’s already gained notoriety (Mary Tudor at C0H0 Productions, Edward II at Triangle Productions and, most recently, suave-and-sexy verse translation of Fuente Ovejuna at Miracle Theatre). Now he’s on to even more queer projects, beginning with Dreams at the Cadogan Hotel, which received a New Rave staged reading Oct. 2 at Stark Raving Theatre. “This piece involves the interaction of authors Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker and George Bernard Shaw, with such fictional characters as Dorian Gray, Dracula and Renfield,” says 25 years of We’Moon Gregory. “A wide variety of sexuality is brought The 2006 We’Moon calendar, in its varied into play,” including homosexuality (Lord Henry Wotton), bisexuality (Wilde), pansexu forms, is being prepared for worldwide distribu ality (Dracula) and eroto-narcissism (Gray). tion of its 25th edition. The publication is part Gregory is also busy rewriting Chateau astrological calendar, part venue for the cre Joyeux, a romantic comedy set in a 1947 French ative energy of graphic and literary female vineyard with a subplot about a middle-aged artists—from recognized lesbian artistic and lit lesbian’s coming out and the introduction of erary luminaries like Tee Corinne, Anndee her partner to the family business. “It is excit Hochman and Sierra Lonepine Briano to ing to me to work on a piece in which an occa third-grader Hon Van Swart. The publication sion of same-sex strongly bonds its love is developed original astrologi as a natural part cal base with femi of a family nism’s Second dynamic, in a Wave and the play that cele women’s land brates joyful emo movement. tional connec Founding tions of all kinds,” mother Musawa he says. set the tone for It’s a different the calendar in kind of connec 1981. She writes, tion in The “Nada, my former Confessions of Dr. partner, and 1 cre Jekyll and Mr. ated the first Hyde, which edition on the Gregory has kitchen table in adapted into a front of the fire in live radio show an old farmhouse for Willamette in the Pyrenees.” Radio Workshop. That issue fea “While there tured “one piece are no queer char of abstract art we acters—in the found behind the sexual sense—in door, and one the piece, since photo of a bare the work deals breasted woman with social juggling oranges duplicity, addic that looked like The 25th edition of the We’Moon calendar is now tion and repres spinning planets.” available.
