theatre by lisa lipsey
Got Milk? Diversionary’s new Play takes
an intiMate look at our Dear Harvey
In December 2007, Diversionary Theatre commissioned playwright Patricia
Loughrey to create a new play about Harvey Milk. After dozens of interviews
with community leaders and Harvey’s friends and family, the play Dear Harvey
is ready to make it’s premiere. Loughrey notes, “These stories about Harvey Milk
are from the people he knew and the lives he changed. I’ve had the remarkable
privilege of talking with people close to him and it’s exciting to be able to share
these intimate, sometimes surprising stories with our community. We lost Harvey
too soon, but in these stories, we get to hear the impact of his love and courage.”
The play is based on interviews with Tom Ammiano, Toni Atkins, Jackie Grover,
Cleve Jones, Christine Kehoe, Anne Kronenberg, John Laird, Stuart Milk, Nicole
Murray-Ramirez, Daniel Nicoletta, Mary Stockton, Robin Tyler, Dottie Wine and
others. Loughrey has also secured permission to use many photos by San
Francisco LGBT photographer Daniel Nicoletta, and has enlisted the help of local
composer Thomas Hodges to write music to underscore the play.
Loughrey is also enlisting each of us. Diversionary has put out a call for “Dear
Harvey” letters, asking us to share where we were and what we were doing when
Harvey was killed or to share the impact Harvey has made on our lives. Lines
from the letters are being incorporated into the show and if you send a letter, it
becomes Diversionary property for their use. E-mail your letters to dearharvey@
diversionary.org. Please note “Letter to Harvey” in the subject line. You can submit
a word document or type your letter into the e-mail.
Zanna, Don’t
Dear Harvey
The Theatre at Roosevelt Middle School
Diversionary Theatre April 18 - 25
3366 Park Blvd. (at Park and Upas, just north of the Zoo)
Tickets: 619.220.0097
April 17 – May 10
Tickets: 619.692.1875
This is the time for Xana/Zanna— now La Jolla Playhouse just had a smash-
ing run of Xanadu. But this play, Zanna, Don’t, produced by Ariel Performing
tHe Glass MenaGerie
Arts, has nothing to do with Xanadu. Zanna, Don’t, a 2003 nominee for Best
Lamb’s Players Theatre April 10 – May 24
Off-Broadway Play, is a musical fairy tale where everything is reversed: The
Tickets: 619.437.0600
captain of the chess team is the coolest guy in school, the quarterback of the
Lamb’s Players presents Tennessee Williams’ classic The Glass Menagerie. As
football team can’t seem to fit in and being gay is the prevailing norm.
with all great classic American plays, The Glass Menagerie is worth seeing again
The title role, Zanna, is Heartsville High School’s magical matchmaker.
or experiencing for the first time. It’s a visible reminder of how Williams changed
Zanna is determined to make sure everyone in town, gay and straight, is
modern theatre and brought to life hauntingly real characters.
happily paired up. At the same time, a musical about straights in the military
The Lamb’s production, as was written by Williams, will feature very little set
sparks major smalltown controversy.
design. So, if you have an appreciation for solid dialogue and subtle, but rich facial
Often light-hearted, the show’s musical score runs the gamut from pop,
and body language, this play is a match made in heaven for you. And it stars two-
funk, R&B and Broadway to touching ballads and dance club mixes. The
time San Diego Critics’ Circle Award-winner Deborah Gilmour Smyth as Amanda
show also tackles hetero-phobia and challenges the way we view love.
Wingfield, the reminiscent and talkative Mother. Given just that, audiences are in
for a real treat.
18 RAGE monthly | APRIL 2009
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