Brave Smiles...Another Lesbian Tragedy
- Full Length Play, Dark Comedy
- 5F
- ISBN: 9780573697036
Smart, satirical farce that uses laughter and touches of raunchy humor to debunk the myth of the doomed lesbian.
The New York Times
Parodies gay cliches about lesbian destiny with deadly accuracy.
LA Times
Description
- Full Length Play
- Dark Comedy
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.
REVIEWS:
Smart, satirical farce that uses laughter and touches of raunchy humor to debunk the myth of the doomed lesbian.
The New York Times
Parodies gay clichés about lesbian destiny with deadly accuracy.
LA Times
Characters
- Casting: 5F
- Casting Attributes: Expandable casting, All Female
MILLICENT - sensitive and poetic
WILL - tomboy butch with bravado
BABE athletic with good genes
DAMWELL MAXWELL - bossy big boots
THALIA - new girl, Jewess, sad German refugee accent
MISS GATEAU - French cook, possible alcohol problem
FRAU LUDMILLA VON PUSSENHEIMER - scary, embittered headmistress, Teutonic accent, forties
MISS GRETA PHILLIPS - beautiful and bewitching teacher, mid-twenties
BARONESS - European lower-caste royalty, loaded
REPORTERS #1 and #2 - fast-talking newspapermen
PIERRE - the Parisian maître-d'
AUDREY - Audrey Hepburn-like actress who plays the role of Sharon
SHIRLEY - Shirley-MacLaine-like actress who plays the role of Bertha
WOUNDED SOLDIER - guy with bad hole in him, the original Vin Marconi
BUM - man with the D.T.'s
NIPPER - Babe's canine companion, a hand puppet
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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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