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Fall theater season offers a little bit of everything

by Anthony Glassman

Cleveland-Autumn is falling like a cloak over the city, which means one thing: theater season has opened.

Gross Indecency at Cleveland Public

With Roger Truesdell, the openly gay director of last year's production of Sin helming this humorous, emotional, genderbending romp, it looks like a sure thing to please audiences.

Theater and Tony 'n' Tina's Wedding at the Rehearsing Cyrano

Hanna are both hits; A New Brain at the Beck Center is getting raves. But, one might ask, what else is there for the queer theatergoer to enjoy in the coming weeks and months?

Going into their second year are the Bad Epitaph Theater Company, with their production of Caryl Churchill's Cloud 9, and the Friends to Friends theater package is making a triumphant return after a popular freshman season.

Friends to Friends

Friends to Friends is a Cleveland Play House package aimed at gay and lesbian audiences. It offers two plays, Elliot Ness in Cleveland and Side Show, as well as two related parties: a champagne brunch before the October 15 matinee of Ness, and a backstage party with the cast of Sideshow following the May 19 performance. All for $60.

Membership in the Friends to Friends club has other benefits, as well. Members can get tickets to Blues for an Alabama Sky for $20 for the February 23 performance. Blues is an intimate look at the Harlem Renaissance of the 1930s. Members also get to relax in the Play House Club afterwards.

In addition, tickets to other shows will be available at discount prices for members. Cloud 9

Bad Epitaph opens their second season with Cloud 9, a piece about imperialism and repression. The play opens in the waning days of the British Empire, where everyone wants to be a heterosexual white male, something shown in the casting of the roles as well as the words spoken. The script requires that the black servant of a wealthy British family be played by a white man, mirroring the character's own desire to be white.

The second act takes place 100 years. later, but the characters who are still around have only aged 25 years. Instead of struggling with imperialism, they are struggling with the task of finding their places in the world.

"You have a lot of unhappy people," said David Hansen, the troupe's artistic director, and one of the stars of the show. "They all want something so badly, and have to figure out how to get it."

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If you hurry, you can catch Red Hen Productions' Rehearsing Cyrano by Linda Eisenstein, playing through October 14. This will mark the 100th production of one of Eisenstein's plays.

When students at a women's college stage a production of Cyrano de Bergerac, questions of gender roles, body image, and sexuality arise in a play filled with song, poetry, swords and comedy.

Directed by Jan Bruml and Harriet Logan, Red Hen continues to bring feminist theater to Cleveland. There's an irony here, since this play was written by a native of Cleveland.

Wit

Playing through October 14 at Dobama Theatre on Coventry is Margaret Edson's Wit. Edson, whose partner gave birth to their son Matthew in July, won a Pulitzer Prize for her look at how cancer affects a cynical doctor.

Emotional and often funny, the play grew out of Edson's own experiences working at a research hospital as a clerk. The steady stream of cancer and AIDS patients planted the seeds for this work, written while Edson was working at a bicycle store.

Angst: 84

Angst: 84 is an original play that Dobama's Night Kitchen will be premiering October 27 through November 11. Written Toni K. Thayer, currently a grad student at CSU, the play takes the audience back to those bad old days of yesteryear, specifically the Reagan administration, in a tribute to '80s teen films with overtones of George Orwell's classic 1984.

The action takes place during a single day of high school in that long-ago year, and is filled with the forbidden love, social scheming, and detention that we all know and love. The audience is promised that the play will deal with concerns of gay youth and how teens come to terms with sexual orientation, despite the play being a satire.

Angst: 84 is directed by Dan Kilbane, the talented young man who breathed life into the role of Bosie Douglas in Gross Indecency. If his directing is as good as his acting, this should be a treat.

Obviously, an autumn full of theatrical goodies for northeastern Ohio. The problem might lie not in finding something, but in finding enough time for all the somethings there are.

Contact the Cleveland Play House at 216-795-7000 for information or to enroll in the Friends to Friends program.

Bad Epitaph Theater Company can be reached at 216-556-4490 or mail@ badepitaph.org. Check their web site, www.badepitaph.org, for more information on upcoming performances.

Red Hen Productions' phone number is 216-661-4301, and their e-mail address is redhen@logan.com.

Dobama Theatre and their Night Kitchen are at 216-932-6838 and on the web at www.dobama.org.

Beck Center: 216-521-2540. Cleveland Public Theatre: 216631-2727.

Hanna Theater (Playhouse Square Association): 216-241-1515.