The Body Show Benefit concived and organiced by Nora Robertson, Jason Bahling & Friends
The Body Show was adapted from Nora's 2007 Pushcart Prize-nominated poem “How to Boil an Egg,” and was held at the Someday Lounge on November 3rd.
The film’s premise is a cooking show gone awry with a Julia Childs meets David Lynch sensibility. Themes: food, sex and identity.
Performers included Back Fence producer Frayn Masters and Nathaniel Bognes, Portland Noir contributor Gigi Little and Oregon Literary Fellow Margaret Malone, director and writer Arthur Bradford and Paschal Coeur frontwoman Danielle Fish who playedfood/sex-related covers. A doughnut contest was sponsored by Voodoo Doughnuts and judged by owner Tres Shannon, Plazm co-editor Tiffany Lee Brown and New Yorker contributing cartoonist Shannon Wheeler. Contestants included Brody Theater principal Brad Fortier, Danielle Fish, The Pragmatic frontman Karl Kling, and Village Voice cartoonist Matt Bors.
