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...like. Yes, at a large hotel there is a record of your last visit and whether you lodged a complaint, but that's altogether different from arriving in a city and finding someone who remembers you and your taste in art or food or wine. Barry Knox, 63, a retired investment banker from New Canaan, Conn., says everyone knows him when he walks in the door at the 10-room Jackson Court, one of the four Joie de Vivre inns in San Francisco. He has been back to the property half a dozen times since 1998, paying about...
...fact, the show’s first four acts—all straight plays—get dreadfully dull despite their provocative subject matter, and the acting is too uneven to make the plays significantly more engaging. We’re led to wonder whether Knox wouldn’t have made a better essayist than playwright...
Directed by Paul Knox; Produced by Naresh Ramarajan ’04, SAA and BGLTSA
...it’s easy to spice up such stale material—by discussing, for example, how India still has laws to prevent what it calls “sex against the order of nature.” Gheri Dosti’s playwright and director Paul Knox discovered the complications caused for gays by the hostility of a tradition-bound society while he was exploring issues of HIV/AIDS in South Asia. Adding considerably to the show’s pathos, the five short plays which make it up are all based on true events, often of tragic proportions...
Yoga is another ingredient of tradition that Knox uses. “Two Men in Shoulder Stand” is great fun to watch, despite its tragic subject matter. We watch as a boyfriend pushes his HIV-infected partner to do difficult yoga poses—the exercises are the most healing gift that he can offer, given his inability to afford retroviral drugs. But despite the fascinating themes this piece explores, the excitement here is in the choreography, not the dialogue...