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THE MARSH  
Presents

Slightly World-Renouned Lesbian Playwright 

TERRY BAUM

in

LESBO SOLO 
My GAY HISTORY PLAY 
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BEST OF FRINGE!
2024 San Francisco 

Fringe Festival

 September 7th - OCtober 12th, 2025*

SUNDAYS AT 5PM

* Masks-Required October 5th

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​​The Marsh Berkeley Cabaret
2120 Allston Way (Close to Berkeley BART)
Berkeley
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ABOUT THE PLAY:​​​​​​​​

Slightly world-renowned lesbian playwright, Terry Baum, has both created and ridden the wave of history that has freed gay people.  She tells that true story in Lesbo Solo, My Gay History Play which won Best of Fringe at the 2024 S.F. Fringe Fest, and was a big hit at World Pride D.C. this year.  The play begins in 1963, when Terry’s beloved high school teacher, Miss Perl, is threatened with being fired over rumors that she’s a lesbian.  Lesbo Solo ends 50 years later, with the astonishing redemption of Miss Perl in a world that has been transformed for gay people.  In between those two events, Terry grows from a homophobic teenager to a pioneering lesbian playwright who demands to be honored by her reluctant parents --  and marches in the Pride Parade in a contingent so politically incorrect that no one will march with her! The powerful arc of the gay liberation movement over five decades is seen through Baum’s moving and hilarious personal narrative.

AUDIENCES RAVE ABOUT LESBO SOLO:​​​​​​​​

-- “I’m a lesbian from Birmingham, Alabama who somehow ended up at the bar in D.C. to hear your story. I think you can assume how much of a miracle that is . This might be the best thing I’ve ever seen. I don’t think I’ve ever been in an old dyke’s company before, actually and that is now something I am ridiculously excited about being. I can’t think of anything clever to say, so just thank you. I wish I could have given you a hug. Keep doing this forever and ever.”

​​​-- I just wanted to say how incredibly impactful your show was. I've read a lot about how hard the time you discussed was and while I have no doubt that it was, you  imbued your stories with so much love. It was a potent reminder that in hard times, we can always find time to laugh. Please never doubt that the community ​wants to hear your stories. I promise we love them! 

​​-- “You will laugh and cry happy catharsis tears. This was my first lesbian history lesson and I want everyone to see it.”

Get out the popcorn & watch a video!

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ONE DYKE'S THEATER

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by Terry Baum

Slightly world-renowned lesbian playwright 

Ten plays from Terry Baum's pioneering writing on lesbian themes, encompassing 40 years of making theater.  Published by EXIT Press.

"One Dyke’s Theater" a Monument to Decades of Lesbian Life and Creativity."  - LA Progressive

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WATCH scenes FROM TERRY BAUM'S

DIVIDE THE LIVING CHILD 
 

In Terry Baum's award-winning play DIVIDE THE LIVING CHILD, which takes place in Amsterdam during the Nazi Occupation,  Torrie van Toom, a kindly Christian spinster, has agreed to take a Jewish child into her home.  But Hannah Bergman, a spirited adolescent, arrives accompanied by her mother, Miriam, who has nowhere else to go.   Torrie's hopes for Hannah's conversion to Christianity clash with Miriam's deep devotion to Judaism.  Hannah is torn between the two women, as she tries to find her way in her new life. 

ONE DYKE'S THEATER

by Terry Baum

Slightly World-Renowned Lesbian Playwright

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OUTWORDS' Mason Funk Interviews Terry about her life, loves & 
plays! 
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OLOC PRESENTS THE
"ONE DYKE'S THEATER"
BOOK PARTY FEATURING
CAROLYN MYERS &
TERRY BAUM 

 Ten plays from Terry Baum's pioneering writing on lesbian themes, encompassing 40 years of making theater. Published by Exit Press

Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's

2,336 letters to Journalist Lorena Hickok

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Written & Performed by Terry Baum

"Best of Fringe" 
"Best Box Office"
- 2019 San Francisco
 Fringe Festival

HICK:  A LOVE STORY

WAITING FOR

THE PODIATRIST

A Tragi-comedy with Puppets & Songs

 

Written and Performed by Terry Baum

Terry Baum'S on

MEDIUM

THE CRACKPOT CRONES 
 

SKETCHES & IMPROV

TERRY BAUM  INTERVIEWS 

& ARTICLES

"One Dyke’s Theater’ a Monument to Decades

of Lesbian Life and Creativity." - LA Progressive

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