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By Dan Leone

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SOME YEARS AGO I sat and watched a riveting Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe (then Edris Cooper) perform a Pearl Cleage one-act to a packed house in the hot, humid basement at Theatre Rhinoceros. It was a memorable evening, made all the more so because Cooper-Anifowoshe has devoted so much of her time to directing in recent years that I haven't seen her onstage as much as I would have liked. This makes the prospect of her new solo show, Political Gossip, particularly enticing. Gossip is described as a "part rant, part talk show, part musical and dance performance" that raises questions relating to politics and race – and though that isn't really a lot to go on, Cooper-Anifowoshe's track record is. Her performance is part of "Three 2 Life," which is billed as "six evenings of life – death – comedy – crime – culture – color." The show also features Color Struck, veteran performer Donald E. Lacy Jr.'s examination of racial prejudice from the point of view of a light-skinned Oakland native, and Shawn Taylor's Slower Than a Speeding Bullet, told from the perspective of someone who was dead and came back to life. Taylor himself was clinically dead for 150 seconds after being shot at a party. He lived to tell the story. Previews Thurs/18, 8 p.m. Opens Fri/19, 8 p.m. Runs Fri.-Sat., 8 p.m. 446 Valencia, S.F. $9-$15. (415) 626-3311. (J.H. Tompkins)