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notes
Life, they say, runs in cycles. When I first encountered Bent, I was a teenager struggling with being openly gay in a small town in Arkansas - reading this play and knowing there were others like me (who faced bullies far worse than mine) helped me make it through a tough time. The second time I crossed paths with Bent was a during the early days of AIDS. The director, having recently lost a close friend, decided that gays didn't need another martyr and revised the ending of the play to delete the script's final death scene - making it, to my mind, a defeatist ending - and kick-starting my days as an activist. Then, eleven years ago, I was acting in the show when I learned of legislation that was being proposed for that fall's election - Amendment Two. Had I stopped to analyze this before, I might have noticed that the circles that my life and this play were describing were getting smaller and smaller... This time the circle closed in tightly: I cast an actor in the show whose employer would not allow him to perform the role due to concerns about its content. The struggle continues. The cycle begins again. Jeremy Cole |
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| Bent by Martin Sherman directed by Jeremy Cole April 3 - May 10, 2003 the LIDA Project Theatre 1280 Stout St. Denver |
| Congratulations to Bill Hahn, winner of the 2003 Denver Post "Ovation" Award and Westword's Best of Denver as Best Actor in a Drama for his performance in Bent |
