Spotlight: One Man Show
by Jason Weiner, Missoula Independent, December 1-8, 2005
St. Louis writer and actor Jerry Rabushka is heading down to Hamilton (MT) on business, but since he's in town, he has a few scenarios he wants to share with you.
Each one tells a story of a life, Somebody Else's Life. In one case, it's a guy pressured to change his life by a cowboy-wannabe boyfriend. In another, it's a married couple who finds the sanctity of its own marriage threatened by a same-sex couple next door who just tied the knot. In the final case, it's a gay teenage boy who gets his wish and loses his happiness as a result.
The lives Rabushka portray may each be somebody else's, but the characters are all his; the play is a one-man show, written and preformed solo. It was staged first in Tulsa, OK and has since been staged in New York, San Francisco and Sacramento CA in venues ranging from the festival stage to an oversized kitchen.
Now Rabushka's low-overhead, high-intensity show comes to Missoula, playing in an unconventional venue, telling stories that might not otherwise be told.
