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Revenge, Envy, Gay Love and Lust Are Probed in Village Playwrights' Triple Bill |
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| by Bruce-Michael Gelbert | |
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photo courtesy of Village Playwrights
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| Jessica DiSalvo & Adrien Saunders in 'Entrapment' |
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The Village Playwrights and New York City's LGBT Community Center presented an enjoyable trio of short, comic gay plays, billed as "Don't Die Laughing" and acted by a company of talented performers, on October 16 and 17 at the Center, and I attended on the second night.
As a people with a history of being harassed by the law, we often embrace plays and novels that show situations in which gays best the very officers of the law who would bust us, and George Bistransin's "Entrapment" dramatizes one such incident. Mike, a hot, but fairly clueless cop, played with assurance by Adrien Saunders, tries to shake down customers and proprietor alike of an Eighth Avenue adult-that is, gay-video store, but this is clearly not his day. Mike's poor, put-upon wife, Carol, a sympathetic Jessica DiSalvo, follows him to his "work" and catches him, not only spouting unflattering things about her, but also assuming a compromising position, stripped for action and, soon, shorn of his gun and his authority. Carol joins forces with shopkeeper Raj, Rushi Kota, and patrons George, Allen Warnock, and Clifton, Peter Schmitz, who were tempted by the alluring Mike, but wouldn't entirely play his game, and, in short order, this foursome has the upper hand over handsome, but hapless Mike.
In Bill Petersen's romantic "That Sixth Deadly," it's Shakespeare's birthday, April 23, and strong feelings and strange spirits abound. David, forcefully portrayed by Vincent Caruso, has been in the grip of Iago-like "jealousy.... the green-ey'd monster" for a decade, ever since Jonathan, a sweetly starry-eyed Jonathan Emerson, landed the part he coveted, of Orlando in their high school Shakespeare troupe's "As You Like It." Jonathan has asked to see David and has quite a story to tell, of coming out and feelings past, which not only dispels ten years of grievance, but also demonstrates that hate and love may be but two sides of a single coin. Lines from Shakespeare's epitaph-"Blest be the man that spares these stones/And curst be he that moves my bones"-inspire both an ominous dream and a bizarre news report, and occurrences of homosexuality in species besides humans are examined. Virginia Hammer is Laura, David's knowing sister, who has a few irons of her own in the fire, and John Philip lends his radio announcer voice to remarks by a "Masterpiece Theatre" host and a BBC newscaster.
"O what a tangled web we weave,/When first we practise to deceive," wrote Sir Walter Scott in his poem "Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field," but sometimes it'll get you invited to participate in a threesome, as in Bistransin's "Last Call," which concluded the triple bill and is set in "a sleazy gay bar" at closing time. John, the bartender, conniving and manipulative, as depicted by Graciany Miranda, is determined to keep Josh, innocence personified, as played by Sergio LoDolce, and Luke, a sexy Marc Sinoway, apart and land one of them for himself for the night, whatever lies and tricks it may take. But lust will find a way, forgiving and forgetting prove watchwords of the wee hour, and with all that's passed between them, three may be a better number for fun than two.
The Village Playwrights (http://villageplaywrights.googlepages.com) meet at the Center at 8 p.m. on the second and fourth Wednesday of each month.
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