2024 SAN FRANCISCO FRINGE PRESENTS
Terry Baum in
LESBO
SOLO,
One Dyke's Life in the Theater
"Baum is provocatively comedic." - SF Chronicle
Cutting Ball Theater
277 Taylor Street in San Francisco
Tix: $17.85
Saturday, August 10th @ 7:30pm
Saturday, August 24th @ 12:00pm
Saturday, August 25th @ 3:00pm
Terry Baum created LESBO SOLO for a performance in a dyke bar in South Africa. Now she’s bringing it back to her hometown Fringe Festival. In “Are You the One?”, she runs around the audience, falling in love (and breaking up) with one woman after another. In “Lesbians for WHAT?!,” she marches in the Pride Parade in a contingent so politically incorrect that no one will march with her. She tells her coming-out story, which includes (1) homicidal rage at male bikers trying to break into a women’s music festival, and (2) first-tiime lesbian lust while pretending to be a baby wrestling with another baby in an improvisation. Also, Terry’s mother (a hand puppet) comes back from the dead, to hound Terry to marry her gay male friend, a Jewish lawyer, so that Mom will have something to brag about in heaven.
There are slides!
There’s a song!
What’s not to like?
Do come.
In BaumBlog, Terry blogs about whatever grabs her, in her personal life, or in the world. It could be an obituary of Tina Turner (“Tina T & Me & the First Gay Olympics”), Affirmative Action’s positive impact on Clarence Thomas (“The Greatest Beneficiary of Affirmative Action Is....!”), a personal reflection on the Fourth of July (“And How Was Your Fourth?), or a meditation on racism (“Taking The Train While Black"). And sometimes it’s simply a photo essay on San Francisco's vibrant street art (“Mission Ramble”).
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by Terry Baum
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Slightly World-Renowned Lesbian Playwright
HOMO PROMOS PrESENTS "IMMEDIATE FAMILY"
HOMO PROMOS, London's gay theater company, proudly presents Terry Baum's groundbreaking play
lMMEDIATE FAMILY, a solo play about Virginia, a middle-aged postal worker who visits her comatose lover, Rose, in the hospital -- and confronts the legal barriers which deny her status as a member of Rose's "immediate family."
Ten plays from Terry Baum's pioneering writing on lesbian themes, encompassing 40 years of making theater. Published by Exit Press
"Best of Fringe"
"Best Box Office"
- 2019 San Francisco
Fringe Festival
HICK: A LOVE STORY
"One Dyke’s Theater’ a Monument to Decades
of Lesbian Life and Creativity." - LA Progressive