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Next at Off Center:
May 24, 25, and 31 and June 1
David Schein's Daring comedy,
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Schein says: I was sketching out solo shows in the Berkeley studio and wanted to do a riff in which I was a woman, so I got on a bra and a dress and started trying to move as if I had a woman’s body, and to speak as if I was a woman – whatever that means. Immediately I became the biggest “queen” you could imagine, meaning a gay stereotype. But that didn’t fit either, this was San Francisco in the eighties, I had a lot of gay friends, they weren’t all queens, some acted and looked more “manly” than straight old me, so where did that leave me trying to play a woman? Then I realized that there were a lot of different flavors of gender in a person just waiting to come out, gay, straight, male, female, butch, top, bottom and more - and that everybody was their own unique cocktail of sexual identities. In one afternoon I thought up a story tying together all the personas within me and all the self-awareness trends of the time. I improvised the show that night. The rest is Butch history.
Note from Earth:
"A swan song for the planet..."
– Chicago Tribune
"...an extended performance poem on the nature of love, the earth, and the universe. ...rich images and language."
– Chicago Reader
Schein says: A 15 minute, lyrical, funny and sad obituary for the ‘barbecued cue ball” that Nisbet calls Earth, full of physics, wry sci-fi and winsome yearning for an evaporated girlfriend who is “such a gas.” Jim wrote “Note” and I first performed it in 1983 long before the term “global warming” was ever coined. Now, after 30+ years, revisiting it, I find its relevance astonishing and spooky, while the language is star-struck, as sweet and beautiful as “points and specs of light against a deep black and blue universe.”
Warning: “Out Comes Butch” has sexual content and language that may offend - for mature audiences only.
Admission: $12 cash or check at the door. Info/Reservations: 716-640-4569
Note from Earth:
"A swan song for the planet..."
– Chicago Tribune
"...an extended performance poem on the nature of love, the earth, and the universe. ...rich images and language."
– Chicago Reader
Schein says: A 15 minute, lyrical, funny and sad obituary for the ‘barbecued cue ball” that Nisbet calls Earth, full of physics, wry sci-fi and winsome yearning for an evaporated girlfriend who is “such a gas.” Jim wrote “Note” and I first performed it in 1983 long before the term “global warming” was ever coined. Now, after 30+ years, revisiting it, I find its relevance astonishing and spooky, while the language is star-struck, as sweet and beautiful as “points and specs of light against a deep black and blue universe.”
Warning: “Out Comes Butch” has sexual content and language that may offend - for mature audiences only.
Admission: $12 cash or check at the door. Info/Reservations: 716-640-4569
