‘Fat Gay Jew’ – surprises with unexpected freshness
While its title sounds like an epithet, if not a racial slur, Fat Gay Jew, Charter Theater’s trio of interrelated one-act plays, contains ample laugh-out-loud moments.
Area-based actor/playwright Mario Baldessari has collected a provocative list of ugly names for those who are fat, gay or Jewish. But he’s also written three reasonably believable scenarios that highlight some of the most uncomfortable aspects of being either fat, gay or Jewish.
This compact 90-minute evening takes place at Arlington’s intimate Theatre on the Run stage Thursdays through Sundays until May 23.
Is it a play with a message? Yes, and that’s clearly stated in the prologue/preface when actor Jim Helein allows there’s lots of “touchy stuff that most good people don’t usually say.”
Director Keith Bridges uses a bare-bones set — a table and four chairs — and has mined his performers’ individual quirks. Laconic Helein has no choice but to play the fat guy, his size and girth evident. He’s the one we meet first as he moves the furniture complaining that just because he’s fat doesn’t mean he’s strong.
Baldessari plays the gay guy with exaggerated feyness and Renee Calarco, the self-described token Jew in the theater company, plays a suburban wife, a single woman whose best friends are gay men and a convert to Judaism who believes that her Jewish connections make her a better Jew. See ‘Fat Gay Jew’ – surprises with unexpected freshness
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Zimbabwe Gay rights debate brews a storm, Anglican preist: Gays ‘had to be completely destroyed, ‘ we are ‘a Christian nation’
They, homosexuals, had to be completely destroyed,” he said.
“Poofters must know that we are a Christian nation,” said Tawanda Gumbo of Kuwadzana. “They chose to be gay.
Forget this nonsense about them being born gay.
If it is true that some people are born gay then we should see some animals that are attracted to the same sex as well.
The fact that there are no gay cattle, elephants, etc, shows it’s something that people choose to do, something that is not natural, something that is against God’s will.”
Stella Mugwengwe
See Zimbabwe Gay rights debate brews a storm on new Constitution
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2nd arrest in NYC homophobic, racist slaying
(New York City) A second arrest was made Friday in the hate crime killing of an Ecuadorean immigrant, a prosecutor said.
The arrest in suburban Yonkers came after police released a video of 28-year-old Keith Phoenix and offered a $22,000 reward for information leading to his capture.
In the video, Phoenix grins …
