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Alan Reade's new performance piece does the (not so) skinny on queer body image
by K Kaufmann
We blush to admit we had not heard of Alan Reade, the multitalented performance dynamo whose new piece,
Bear-A-Go-Go, is premiering at the Jon Sims Center this Friday. This is obviously our loss, as the savagely witty Reade-who has been burning up stages from Brussels to Sendai, Japan-has a lot on his mind and is not the least bit shy about saying it.A work-in-progress, Bear is a very personal look at the queer community's ongoing obsession with the perfectly buffed bod and our not-so-flattering stereotypes of gay men of girth. This is in-your-face stuff with Reade playing a range of gay characters we rarely see on stage-from the flabby computer nerd hiding behind his chat room fantasies to the big bad bear daddy who finds his beer belly and body hair leave him just as fetishized as most perfectly muscled party boys.
If you've ever wanted to see a bear go-go dancer, this is definitely the show for you. And it will be playing in repertory once a month, now through September, with three other cutting-edge queer shows as part of the Sims Center's Summer AIRspace series. This incubator for LGBT art will be featuring new work by multimedia artist Sue Roginski, premiering July 16, and two pieces exploring lesbian sexuality, Studly by Lisi DeHaas, which opens July 23, and Bedroom Stories by Zina Camblin, July 30.
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