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 MARCH '05 EVENTS Join sex
workers, activists and literati around the world in celebrating the Join Carol
Queen and the Sex Workers Outreach Project in San Francisco to FRIDAY MARCH
25TH  Award-Winning,
Gender-Bending Live Theater with S. Bear Bergman -- First San Francisco Appearance! Friday, Saturday, Sunday, March 11, 12, and 13 at 8 pm $15-25 sliding scale Friday and Saturday; Sunday is Pay-What-You-Can Night At CSC -- 398 11th Street. Appropriate for ages 12 and over.  Award-winning
performer S. Bear Bergman, fresh from the National Gay and Lesbian Theater
Festival, brings hir brand-new work, Clearly Marked, to The Center
for Sex & Culture. Newly crowned Best Of The Festival at the National
Gay and Lesbian Theater Festival, Clearly Marked is a hilarious, high-impact,
thought-provoking exploration of identity. Bergman grapples with religion,
body image, gender, sexuality, and the perennial bathroom problem -- not
to mention how gender is like a highway, life as the Little Jewish Ambassador,
being a fat kid, strategic lesbianism, gay marriage, and how to explain
it all to your Aunt Petunia in a way that doesn't completely freak her out.
Bay Windows called Bergman's play “[a] soul-searching and funny solo
piece that ultimately broaden[s] our collective understanding of labels.”
It's “loving and instructive, comedic... compassionate and mischievous,”
says performance artist Scott Turner Schofield. As Bergman's signature warm
and accessible storytelling begins to unfold on the stage, lines between
categories start to blur and old labels start to have new lives. In the
revelation of a lifetime's worth of accumulated identities, Clearly Marked
opens up a place for anyone to be more complicated, and questions the society
that demands we wear so few. Also unique is the loving examination of Jewish
tradition and community which Bergman -- an observant Jew -- brings to the
stage. Bergman's last play, Ex Post Papa, won the Best Socio-Political Play Award at the festival in 2002. A longtime activist on behalf of anyone who wants to learn and be different at the same time (particularly queer/trans youth and students), Bear is currently working on the creation of a national, web-based, Queer Mentoring Project. Less recently, ze was also one of the five original founders of the first Gay/Straight Alliances, a frequent lecturer at high schools and colleges on the subject of making schools safe for GLBT students, and a founding commission member of what is now called the Massachusetts Safe Schools Project. S. Bear Bergman has been heard and published in a variety of places, lives on the web at www.sbearbergman.com, and makes a home in Northampton, Massachusetts where ze is the very lucky husbear of a magnificent femme.
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