Passionate plumage:
Troupe helps love take fl ight
Watched by a zookeeper,
center, played by
Cameron Lira, two male
penguins, portrayed by
Richard Bowman, left,
and Preston C. Roper, are
given an egg and some
encouragement.
Patrick Webb
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‘Birds of a Feather’ features hawks, gay penguins
BY PATRICK WEBB
Gay penguins continue to make headlines,
from a charming story about a couple of pen-
guins at the Central Park Zoo adopting a chick
to a book that many have sought to ban. Now,
there is a play about them.
“Birds of a Feather” is the latest perfor-
mance to be staged by Astoria’s Ten Fifteen
Productions. With a cast of six that plays 25
parts, the performance will be directed by Ann
Bronson, a longtime actor and singer on the
North Coast.
Bronson’s directorial debut, “A Bench in
the Sun,” was staged at the Coaster Theatre
Playhouse in Cannon Beach in February 2020,
just before the pandemic shut down local
performances.
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