12/30/2010 Fresh Fruit

End of the year show
Happy New Year!

Guests:

David Coral, director
Dan Eckman-Thomas, actor
Tina Moroni, actress
John Bueche, co-artistic director Bedlam Theater
JJ Halberstam, author, educator

COME BACK TO THE 5 & DIME JIMMY DEAN, JIMMY DEAN
by Ed Graczyk

David Coral, director
Dan Eckman-Thomas, plays Joe (Joanne pre-op)
Tina Moroni, plays Joanne (post-op)

Theatre in the Round Players
January 7 - 30, 2011
Audience discussion follows the matinee performance on January 16th.

In the Woolworth's store in McCarthy, Texas, the Disciples of James Dean are gathering for their 20th reunion. They were teenagers when movie star Dean filmed Giant in a nearby town, and their memories intermingle with flashbacks to that eventful time. This year, though, their reunion attracts a mystery guest. A comedy of Southern sass and spice, and emotional surprises.

John Bueche, co-artistic director

Bedlam Theatre

Updates about Bedlam's activities and new space search

JJ Halberstam Interview edit from 2010

Interviewed for Fresh Fruit 6-15-10

Judith Jack Halberstam

Judith Halberstam is Professor of English and Director of The Center for Feminist Research at USC. Halberstam teaches courses in queer studies, gender theory, art, literature and film.

Halberstam is the author of Female Masculinity, The Drag King Book, Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters, In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives.

New book due for release in 2011 with Duke University Press
Working Title "Failure as a Queer Way of Life"