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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (March 6, 2009)
OREGON S GAY/LESBIAN/BI/TRANS NEWSMAGAZINE MARCH b 2009 23-J« Confluence Willamette Valley LGBT Chorus Ray Elliott, Artistic Director acters in Bare explore what it means to be an out Bare leaves the audience to grapple with sider in environments that are hostile to that no what happens when the happy ending doesn’t tion, and they examine the toll that can take when come true, and the strength that can be found an individual believes the intolerance around him in therein. Insley hopes people will take advan and starts to perpetrate it on himself. tage of “the chance to see a show that tackles “As someone who grew up in a small southern issues most theater is too afraid to address.” town, I understand why some people feel the need While the action of the piece is relegat to hide what others feel isn’t acceptable,” said Insley. ed to the insular environment of one school, “The musical deals a lot with internal homopho the implications of its messages are wide bia... [It] still runs rampant in our community, spread. Hillier explains, “We wish to unite and many gay men and women deny themselves people after their experience with Bare and the pleasure of living a truthful life because of fear perhaps open hearts and minds, formerly of self-recognition.” tightly closed off, to accepting the beautiful Taking its cues from opera, Bare is a very musical piece. Music plays throughout, with each differences in people and how they choose to be themselves.’ principal character having a melodic motif. The styles of the numbers veer from ballads to rap. “Lyrically, the show is bold and doesn’t steer T in P an A lley T heatre C ompany presents Bare through March 28 at Interstate Firehouse away-from thrusting the actors into situations Cultural Center, 5340N. Interstate Ave. Tickets are that they otherwise wouldn’t have a chance to sing $18-$2Ofrom 503-593-2466. about,” said Insley. “[I] felt that, being a gay man, I have the ability to grasp the content of the mu K ristin S teele is a Portland writerand educator sic in a way that perhaps another music director whose work has appeared online, onstage and in wouldn’t have the ability to do.” newspapers, magazines and anthologies. Illusion, Tony Kushner’s free adaptation of this earlier period, in 1988, that he adapted French playwright Pierre Corneille’s 17th Corneille’s tragicomedy, in which a melan century comedy L'lllusion Comique, is afford choly father enlists the aid of a magician to ing Portlanders a relatively rare chance to see find out what happened to his wayward son. a Kushner work that predates his enormously Corneille’s embrace of artifice in L'lllusion popular and successful Angels in America, for Comique —each “scene” the magician shows which he won the Pulitzer Prize and became the king from his son’s life amounts to a “play and most renowned of con temporary gay scribes. In fact, Angels can be like alterations in the significant details of each nicely with episode—dovetails Kushner’s (post)modern embrace of self-conscious the atricality and taste for self-reflexivity, which tion of Kushner’s rich, Angels took even further a few years later. rapport with the entire histo ry of his medium. 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