Just
Out
January 18, 2007
posted by Jim RadostaGay
Thesp in the Spotlight
Gay actor/director Andrés Alcalá is featured
on the Jan. 11 cover of Más, a biweekly
supplement published by our friends at El
Hispanic News.
Alcalá is directing Insight Out Theatre
Collective’s The Yellow Boat, which opens
tomorrow at Echo Theater, 1515 S.E. 37th Ave.
Talkbacks follow every performance. Tickets are
$15 from 503-493-8070 or here; Sundays are
$5-$15 sliding scale. The show closes Feb. 11.
This stunning play tells the true story of
Benjamin Saar, a hemophiliac who contracts HIV
and then AIDS through a blood transfusion. A
gifted 8-year-old visual artist, he creates
inspired drawings and paintings that transform
his pain and express his understanding of life.
The play examines how fear and ignorance grip
the perspectives of the adults who surround him,
only to be released by the heart and imagination
of this young boy.
Alcalá, a Drammy Award winner for both directing
and acting, has also earned the Arizoni Award
for Best Director in Phoenix. He has directed
and performed extensively throughout Oregon and
Arizona and has envisioned directing The Yellow
Boat for many years.
He has performed with Miracle Theatre in Men on
the Verge of a His-Panic Breakdown, Men on the
Verge 2, Deporting the Divas!, Kiss of the
Spider Woman and Sirena, Queen of the Tango. He
has directed Miracle’s A Bicycle Country and
performances for the young playwrights of
Miracle’s Pluma Nueva program. Other favorite
shows that he has performed in include Love!
Valour! Compassion!, One: the Musical, The
Laramie Project, Entusiasmo!, Touch, Richard
III, Othello and Ferdinand the Bull. For the
Oregon Shakespeare Festival he performed as The
Moon in Lorca's Blood Wedding and Florizel in A
Winter's Tale.
To view a PDF of the Más issue click here. For
more information about The Yellow Boat, turn to
Page 26 of tomorrow’s Just Out.
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