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DAPHNE RUBIN-VEGA
ON STAGE
From Broadway to Vegas
By Laura Deni
Women Project
& Productions, with Julia Miles as Artistic Director, presents the first
production of its 1999 season; the New York City premiere of Gum by
Karen Hartman starring Daphne Rubin-Vegas.
Tony nominated for her "shadowy
eroticism - street swagger and mortal fragility" as Mimi an HIV-positive
junkie-dancer at an S&M club in Rent where she sang one song in
skin-tight spandex, while straddling a balustrade high above the stage. Born in
Panama City, Panama, and raised in Greenwich Village, the delightful actress returns
to the NY stage as a veiled woman in a walled garden who discovers the
forbidden - and deadly - pleasures of gum, and pays the price in an
unforgiving culture.
The plot line centers around the lure of forbidden (Juicy) Fruit which seduces
two veiled women to seek furtive pleasures, only to discover the price of
passion in a land where a woman's "virtue" determines her value.
"Almighty God created sexual desire in ten parts; then he gave nine parts
to women and one to man." From the writings of Ali ibn Abu Taleb, husband
of Muhammad's daughter Fatima, founder of the Shiite sect of Islam.
Gum is directed by Loretta Greco with previews beginning Oct. 6. The
official opening is Oct. 17 at Women's Project & Production Theatre, NYC.
The cast also features Firdous Bamji, Angel Desai, Lizan Mitchell, and Juan
Rivera Lebron. Set design by Myung Hee Cho, costumes by Elizabeth Hope Clancy
and lighting under the direction of Frances Aronson.