Portland State Magazine Fall 2009

Daring feminist plays DEPICTING Joan ofArc as an anorexic, cross dressing, teen lesbian, has earned Carolyn Gage '82, MA '84 national recognition. This past spring, she received the Lambda Literary Award in Drama for The Second Coming ofJoan ofArc: and Other Plays. Considered the top literary award for the lesbian and gay community in the United States, the Lambda recognizes a work that Gage originally published 15 years ago. The new collection also includes six other plays in which Gage, a lesbian– feminist, interprets the lives of such famous women as Charlotte Cushman, Calamity Jane, and Harriet Tubman. Gage also performs her plays around the country, including the award– winning, one-women show, The Second Coming ofJoan ofArc. She will be at Pacific University in Forest Grove performing the play on October 16. Prospero's enchanted isle T HE TEMPE ST creates a world where nothing is as it first appears. With that in mind, director and professor William Tate, plans a PSU Theater Arts production that embraces the full abundance of the play's ending and beginnings and alternately grim and beautiful illusions. Shakespeare's The Tempest opens November 20, 7:30 p.m., at Artists Reper– tory Theater, 1515 SW Morrison (Lincoln Hall to reopen in fall 2010). The evening performances continue November 21, 24, 25, 27, 28. A 2 p.m. mati– nee is planed for Nov. 22. Tickets may be purchased at the PSU Box Office, 503-725-3307, and at TicketMaster outlets. ■ ALUMNI ART ON EXHIBIT Double Dutch, a mixed-media painting by Anna Fidler '05, is part of the Outlook: Contemporary PSU Art Graduates 2005-09 exhibit November 5-27.The exhibit is in Autzen Gallery, 205 Neuberger Hall, weekdays 1 O a.m. to 5 p.m. James Yood, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, is curator. FANFARE New Works THE BOOK OF WILLIAM: HOW SHAKESPEARE'S FIRST FOLIO CONQUERED THE WORLD By Paul Collins (English faculty) , Bloomsbury USA, 2009 THE BEST DANCER By Christoph Keller, PSU's Ooligan Press, 2009 SMALL TOWN SUSTAINABILITY By Paul Knox and Heike Mayer MUS '00, PhD '03, Birkhauser Basel, 2009 SUPER SUNDAY IN NEWPORT: NOTES FROM MY FIRST YEAR IN TOWN By Matt Love '86, Nestucca Spic Press, 2009 NEW PERSPECTIVES ON TECHNICAL EDITING By Avon J. Murphy '65, Baywood Publishing, 2009 TENTACLES By Roland Smith (attend– ed PSU in che 1970s) , Scholastic Press, 2009 JOURNAL KEEPING By Dannelle Stevens and The Best Dancer Joanne Cooper, Stylus Publishing, 2009 SUPER FUN TIMES Music recording by SuperZ: Stephanie Hays 'O 1, Chris Gabriel 'O 1, Brandy Keehn '00, Jessica Bell '02, Klaus Ferguson '00; Bopser Records, 2009 LINCOLN'S DAUGHTER By Tony Wolk (English faculty) , PSU's Ooligan Press, 2009 FALL 2009 PORTLAND STATE M AGAZI NE 7