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FIVE LESBIAN BROTHERS
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The Five Lesbian Brothers are Maureen angelos, Babs Davy, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey, and Lisa Kron. The Brothers came together as a theater company in 1989 after performing together in various other combinations at the Obie award-winning WOW Cafe Theatre in New York City's east Village. Together the Brothers have written five plays, Voyage to Lesbos (1990), Brave Smiles (1992), The Secretaries (1994), Brides of the Moon (1996), and Oedipus at Palm Springs (2006), which was written by Maureen angelos, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey, and Lisa Kron. The Brothers' work has been presented Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway by New York Theatre Workshop, the Joseph Papp Public Theatre, the WOW Cafe Theatre, Downtown art Company, Performance Space 122, Dixon Place, La Mama, the Kitchen, and the Whitney Museum of American art at Phillip Morris. They have toured to London, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Houston, Columbus, Seattle, Philadelphia, Boston, and the deep woods of Michigan. Their plays have also been produced by other companies throughout the United States and, believe it or not, in Zagreb, CroatiA. The Brothers are the recipients of a Village Voice Obie award, a New York Dance and Performance award ("Bessie"), a GLaaD Media award, and a New York Press award as Best Performance Group. an anthology of their plays entitled Five Lesbian Brothers/Four Plays was published in 2000 by Theatre Communications Group and was nominated for a Lambda Literary award.
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Brave Smiles. . . Another Lesbian Tragedy Brides Of The Moon Oedipus At Palm Springs Secretaries, The Voyage To LesbosBrave Smiles. . . Another Lesbian Tragedy
In Brave Smiles. . .another Lesbian Tragedy, master satirists the Five Lesbian Brothers turn their merciless eyes on the history of lesbians in theater, film, and literature. From their dismal yet erotically charged beginnings at the orphanage under the grip of a sadistic headmistress, our five heroines cross continents and a century to face their absurdly tragic ends. along the way, they experience alcoholism, suicide, loneliness, pill popping, blacklisting, and a malignant brain tumor. Students of the lesbian art of misery will recognize gleeful skewerings of The Well of Loneliness, The Group, Maedchen in Uniform, and The Children's Hour in this rollicking, hilarious, and smart multicharacter classic.
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a Five Lesbian Brothers play written by Maureen Angelos, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey And Lisa Kron
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Vivere Productions
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Samuel French, Inc - New York (2010) >>> 978-0-573-69703-6
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Comedy Drama. - - Lesbian, full length
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In this sci-fi sex comedy from razor-sharp satirists The Five Lesbian Brothers, a group of female astronauts in the year find themselves adrift in space when a discarded Winnebago crashes into the ship's hull. When their programmed sexual urges are accidentally triggered, the ship becomes a Sapphic love boat. To make matters worse, the only person who can save them is a dotty housewife back on earth with an unexpected past. a bawdy, distopic comedy that surprises with poignant portraits of lost souls reaching for connection.
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a Five Lesbian Brothers play written by Maureen Angelos, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey And Lisa Kron
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Comedy. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest
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Irreverent theater group the Five Lesbian Brothers get their greasy prints on a classic. Oedipus at Palm Springs follows the dark adventure of two couples on a retreat to the desert resort town. While new parents Fran and Con try desperately to jump-start their sex life, May-December love bunnies Prin and Terri can't keep their hands off each other. What begins as a hilarious, boozey weekend takes a horrific turn after a secret is revealed. Two parts comedy with a shot of tragedy shaken over ice, Oedipus at Palm Springs is a brave examination of the messy guts of relationships.
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a Five Lesbian Brothers play written by Maureen Angelos, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey And Lisa Kron
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New York Theatre Workshop
79 east 4th Street, New York, NY 10003 Jul 2005
79 east 4th Street, New York, NY 10003 Jul 2005
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Samuel French, Inc - New York (2010) >>> 978-0-573-69702-9
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Comedic tragedy. - - Lesbian, full length
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If Russ Mayer and John Carpenter were characters on The L Word, had a baby and moved to Stepford, perhaps that child would dream up this play. Luckily, such a fantastic turn of events is unnecessary, as the Five Lesbian Brothers have already undertaken this feat in writing The Secretaries. The play bridges the gaps between hilarious and horrifying as the slim-fast slurping secretaries at Coony Lumber Mill in Big Bone, Oregon, induct Patty, the new girl, into their ritualistic world of female empowerment. They count their calories, workout till it hurts, and dress to impress. They wear their hair big and their heels high. They work together and play together and once a month they slaughter a lumberjack together
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a Five Lesbian Brothers play written by Maureen Angelos, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey And Lisa Kron
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Samuel French, Inc - New York (2010) >>> 978-0-573-69701-2
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1h 10m Comedy Spoken Word/Poetry Play/Drama. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest
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Male: - Female: 5 Other: doubling
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Top of PageVoyage To Lesbos
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The maiden effort from legendary theater troupe the Five Lesbian Brothers, Voyage to Lesbos takes a darkly humorous look at the warping effects of internalized homophobia and phallo-centrism on the lesbian psyche. The action takes place in Lesbos, Illinois, in a vaguely defined pre-Stonewall, post-Freudian period of American culture. The occasion is Bonnie's wedding day. Five inextricably intertwined women ostensibly prepare for the happy event, while their every action serves to sabotage it. Highlights include several rousing musical numbers and a jerk-off session between the cousins, Bonnie and Connie, involving banal heterosexual fantasy and a vacuum cleaner. ever treading on thin ice, Voyage to Lesbos laughs so that it does not cry.
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a Five Lesbian Brothers play written by Maureen Angelos, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey And Lisa Kron
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Play/Drama. - - Lesbian, full length
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Male: - Female: 5 Other: doubling
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