Rick Paul remembers exactly where and when he conceived of Lionheart Gay Theatre, Chicago’s longest-surviving company devoted to lesbian and gay plays.
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AIDS figures in Lionheart’s latest production, running this weekend and next–a double bill of (Wild) Person, Tense (Dog), by the late San Francisco writer Robert Chesley, and Minutes From Moonburst, by Paul. But the real theme of this pair of shows–featuring a five-man cast under Paul’s direction–is the aspiration toward, and eventual disillusionment with, a gay utopian vision as expressed in two very different subcultures: the San Francisco leather bar scene and the little-known “radical faerie” movement.
(Wild) Person, Tense (Dog) and Minutes From Moonburst will be performed at 7 PM Friday and Saturday, January 25 and 26 and February 1 and 2, at the Rodde Center, 4753 N. Broadway, suite 1200. General admission is $4; for more information, call 271-4155.
