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LESBO SOLO is coming to Los Angeles! Click for info.
BEST in FRINGE!
2024 San Francisco Fringe Festival
Slightly World-Renouned Lesbian Playwright
TERRY BAUM
Performs her award-winning solo play
LESBO SOLO
- My True Life Adventures
thru 50 Years of Gay Liberation -
“Thanks for the kick-ass performance and stories. Fabulous! One of my favorite moments was the motorcycle date ending with BYE BYE after your elaborate bathroom scenarios. Miss Pearl's full circle story was a gift. And so much MORE.” -- MARGA GOMEZ, COMEDIAN & PLAYWRIGHT
"Though steeped in a devastating history, the show was by and large a hysterical comedy. For example, Baum cheekily reminisced about her “Lesbians for Penetration” congregation at San Francisco Pride in the ’80s, describing an outfit decked out with a belt of phallic vegetables and a blown-up latex glove affixed to her sign with two fingers poking out." -- DAILY CALIFORNIAN
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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.
ONE DYKE'S THEATER
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
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.
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
