Word: hickman
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Lavishly billed "OUT on the Edge 1995," this year's Festival of Lesbian and Gay Theater, sponsored by The Theater Offensive, features two intensely personal stories as its centerpieces. Peggy Shaw's You're Just Like My Father is a knockout slice of lesbian life while Craig Hickman '90 gyrates his way into the trials of growing up black in skin and ornaments. Written by its performers, the pieces explore the one-person-show format, to polar degrees of success...
Whatever You're Just Like My Father is, skin and ornaments is not. An indulgent and intensely boring self-portrait, Craig Hickman's piece proves that the standard queer coming-of-age play has lost its novelty, and that gay playwrights really need to move...
...Hickman tries ever so hard to live up to the festival's title, "OUT on the Edge," and fails at every, attempt, Nudity, simulated sex and cross-dressing are paraded by the audience as if to prove that Hickman is truly at the outer limits of experimental theater. Somebody should tell him that it's all been done before, and far better...
...Hickman rambles on for more than an hour about his life experiences, assuming that their mere existence is enough to wow any audience. He presents the situations plaguing him with very little insight. As he talks about black gay men not being attracted to black gay men, or dramatizes a rape that he had experienced, he lapses into the most disastrous pitfall of a one-man show: self-indulgence...
Others have expressed delight with her music.Last summer while performing, an "intriguing,attractive woman was quietly singing harmony whileI performed. After the show she came up to me andtold me how much she liked the show." As it turnedout, that woman was Sarah Hickman, a well-knownmusician on the Country-Western circuit and formermember of the Dixie Chicks. Coats was surprised;"I have a few of her CD's, but I didn't recognizeher at first." Although receiving compliments onthe street is stimulating and rewarding, Coatsadmits that it is difficult to keep a professionaldistance, making a performer more vulnerable whenon...