I KENTUCKY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1995 THEATER RSViHlV fa*gGOT WITH A GUN Jv I i By JUDITH EGERTON Staff Critic "fa*ggot with a Gun," performed Friday night and yesterday as the fifth and final entry in Actors Theatre's Off-Broadway Flying Solo Friends Festival, was a bang-up good time. The show opened in the dark with a recording of Black Panther Bobby Seales discussing white America's fear of blacks with guns. Then the taped message warns: "Now it's the 90s and straight white America faces a new terror as yet another group of outcasts decided it can't take it anymore." A woman screams, "Oh my God, that fa*ggot's got a gun!" Actor-comedian Mark Davis bolted on stage with a blistering arsenal of funny lines and hilarious characters. At times, the audience laughed so hard that Davis paused in mid-joke to join in. Davis wasn't alone on the Victor tion from his karate-skilled secret agent pal, Emma Peel, he packs a lovely, bejeweled pistol and heads out to avenge the wrongs done to hom*osexuals the world over.
With an articulateness that didn't falter, Davis reeled off autobiographical stories that smoothly transitioned from one segment to the next, aided by nice lighting work and disco and punk music. Dark humor comes naturally to Davis, who was born on Friday the 13th, the seventh child of a mortician father. For his comedy show, he dressed appropriately in a long-sleeved black shirt with white stripes down the arms, tight, plastic-like black pants and shiny gold boots. His energy and his lean, high-cheekboned face and blue eyes engaged the audience from the start. Less political than Tim Miller's "Naked Breath," Davis' solo performance relies more on his gut instincts about fairness.
He even finds the politics within the gay community silly, especially the oh-so-politically correct identifications of its groups. Davis just refers to the gay and lesbian community as "Queer BLT," because it's an easier, quicker way to refer to gays, lesbians, bisexuals and Jory stage taking pot shots at uptight gay haters and quack New Age faith healers. To help, he brought along his mother, Mavis Davis, alter ego and mentor Emma Peel of the Avengers, Bruce Lee, a Mary Kay saleswoman with a beehive hairdo and a vanload of other comic characters he created. Davis' favorite target is any person or group who is intolerant of another person or group. He knows about intolerance.
As a gay boy in a small town, he often was bullied and ostracized. For those reasons, he packed up and left his hometown of Centra-lia, in 1978 at age 15. He describes that town, which he called Helmsville, as a place with a billboard that says, "Welcome to Helmsville," on one side and "Annihilate Anyone Who is Different" on the other. The actor took specific aim at gay-bashing television evangelists, building his show around a revenge fantasy in which he and his lesbian friend, Anita Ritalin (as in "I need a heroically save America's gay icons from an evil plot by a bigoted evangelist and his politically ambitious wife. Davis's dead-on immitations of the falsely pious Christian and his rigid politician wife were classics.
After Davis has an imaginary visita 5i a mm -w- -w -m mr i mm 2 die, 1 hurt when car racing train hit Associated Press LEXINGTON, Ky. Two Prestons-burg, men were killed and another injured yesterday when their car was struck by a train near a golf course where a Senior PGA tournament was being played, police said. The vehicle was trying to outrun the Norfolk Southern train when it was struck about 1 p.m. EDT near Kearjiey Hill Links, said Lexington police Officer Eric Bostrom. Two or three vehicles in front of the victims' car had already made it through the crossing as the train approached, he said.
Russell D. Bandy, 43, and Jerry W. Toney, 47, were pronounced dead at the scene, the Lexington-Fayette County coroner's office said. Terry Cole, 39, was taken to the University of Kentucky Hospital, where he was in good condition, a hospital spokeswoman said. She didn't know the nature of his injuries.
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