Songs," which he prepared in connection with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum exhibit "Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals." Under the aegis of Doric Wilson, Mark Finley and Barry Childs' gay theater company TOSOS (the Other Side of Silence) II, performer Jeremy Lawrence offered a witty, proud and political evening of these "Lavender Songs," in his own English adaptations, at the Duplex on Christopher Street, on April 10 and 11, assisted by pianist Ray Fellman and directed by Jason Jacobs. I attended the second hearing.

Hair slicked back, rouged, tuxedoed, and looking like he just stepped out of one those Berlin cabarets, Lawrence set the tone for the evening with Erik Kästner's evocative and suggestive poem "Ragout fin de siècle" and interspersed the songs, sung in a strong voice, with historic tales of interrogations, arrests, and defiance.