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AUGUST 19, 2011
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Del On Wheels...
And “off Paxil,” writer-comic Shores brings sordid fun to Red Cap
Whether you know him for his work as a
scribe on television shows like Dharma & Greg
and Queer As Folk, his raw stand-up routines or
his cult-classic film, play and TV series Sordid
Lives, Del Shores is nothing if not unforgettable.
The writer-director-producer pulls no ce
lebrity punches—calling Judge Reinhold “the
biggest fucking asshole I’ve ever worked with”
and Queer as Folk's Randy 1 larrison (Justin)
“an ungrateful little shit”—and has earned a
following for being unabashedly brash, among
other things. Shores unleashes his pop culture
missives at Red Cap Garage Sunday, August
28 as part of a new one-man show, Del Shores
Sordid Confessions.
Shores’ writing career skyrocketed with the
success of his 1987 play D addy’s Dyin
(W ho’s Got the Will?) and subse
quent film adaptation in 1990.
Perhaps best known for his
play Sordid L ives, also
made into a movie in
1999, and later a 2008
TV series on Togo, Shores
scooped up a sizable LG-
BTQ_fan base with enig
matic characters like Earl
“Brother Boy” Ingram—an in
stitutionalized
cross-dressing
gay—and his mother, Peggy, played on
byr yan j
the srtiall screen by late Golden Girls icon Rue
McClanahan.
In the wake of that acclaimed,
albeit short-lived “black
comedy about white trash,”
Shores recently wrapped
filming on his latest ef
fort, whose name alone
capitalizes on his censor
less shtick. The Trials and
Tribulations o f a Trailer
Trash L lousewife stars Beth
Grant (L ittle Miss Sunshine ),
Octavia Spencer {The Help) and
Dale Dickey (M y Name is Earl) and is
. prado
set for a 2012 theatrical release.
In the meantime, expect 75 hysterical min
utes of tales tracing his “slut years” through
the Sordid whirlwind, delivered with a pinch
of Shores’ deceptive Texan charm.
“Look, I got off Paxil,” he says of the mono
logue. “Now I’m bitter, somewhat mean and I
don’t give a shit anymore.”
Hold onto your haunches, folks. W ith Del
Shores at the wheel, it’s gonna be a bumpy,
bitchy ride. J#]
Sun., August 28, 8 p.m .; R ed Cap Garage, 1035
SW Stark St.; $10-$20; 2 D ; 503-226-4171,
delshores.net or redcapgarage.com.
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