by Rohan Preston
Star Tribune
11/9/12

MORPHOLOGIES: A QUEER PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL

[Runs through 11/19]: The festival kicks off Friday [11/9/12] with Alaskan transgender performing artist Scott Turner Schofield‘s “Becoming a Man in 127 Easy Steps.” Schofield lets the audience choose the stories that will be told. (7:30 p.m. Fri.-Sat., Ritz Theater, 345 13th Av. NE., Mpls.) The festival also includes poet and essayist Ryka Aoki de la Cruz‘s self-created “In Search of Geishaghost.” (7:30 p.m. Sun., Pangea World Theater Studio, 711 W. Lake St., Mpls.), plus three shows at Intermedia Arts: Tamil/Sri Lankan-American activist and provocateur D’Lo‘s “D’FUNQT”; “Shaking Our Shells: Stories From On the Wings of Wadaduga,” a history-based show about “Cherokee … GLBTQ memories” written and performed by Qwo-Li Driskill; and “Outside the Circle,” a play about seduction written and performed by Andrea Assaf and Samuel Valdez. (“D’FUNQT” is at 7:30 p.m. Wed.-Thu., “Outside the Circle,” 7:30 p.m. next Fri.-Sat., “Shaking Our Shells,” 7:30 p.m. Nov. 18 & 19, Intermedia Arts, 2822 Lyndale Av. S., Mpls. Tickets: $15 per show or $75 for the whole festival. www.brownpapertickets.com.)

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