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Pride

by Myles Weber
review in sidewalk.com by Appolinaire Scherr

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PERFORMANCE: Pride

Theater directors John Sowle and Steven Patterson --
collectively Kaliyuga Arts -- generally like their plays
expressionistic, absurd and manic. They've done everything
from "L'Histoire de Babar" to avant-garde cult figure Robert
Montgomery's hilariously dour take on Dostoyevsky's "The
Idiot" to Stein, Stein, and more Stein. All along, they've
shown their gift, as one critic noted, "for rendering oddities
with grace and insight."

But realism hasn't generally been one of the tricks in their
bag. At least not until Myles Weber sent them his manuscript
of "Pride." Here was a scathing, forlornly undomestic
comedy which felt uncannily familiar to the duo. Featuring a
gay man looking for some kind of love-permanence in a
disposable world, they felt "it absolutely nailed a certain
segment of the gay community as we face the millennium."
About a foreign service employee who tries to get over the
men haunting him and get involved with those titillating him,
the play hits home without -- get this -- resorting to any
nudity whatsoever! -- Apollinaire Scherr

June 4 - July 3: "Pride" at Exit Stage Left, 156 Eddy St. Previews
June 4-5, opens June 7, then runs Thurs-Sat at 8 pm. $10 for previews,
$12 otherwise. Reservations: (415)431-8423.

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