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ISBN 978-0-573-69702-9
A Five Lesbian Brothers play written by Maureen Angelos, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey and Lisa Kron
Comedic tragedy
5f
Simple Set
WINNER! 2011 LAMBDA Literary Award for Best LGBT Play!
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.
“Along the way to the inevitable dark twist is much lightness and enlightenment to revel in--not just a lot of zingy one-liners about commitment, gay life in America, parenthood, and growing older, but also a real sense of these four women as women, friends, and lovers…. It may be the saddest comedy you'll ever see.” - The Boston Globe
“Richly funny as it is, Oedipus at Palm Springs is also a serious inquiry into the unforeseen extremities of despair that can attend the search for a pure and lasting love.” - Charles Isherwood, New York Times
“Sensitive storytelling.” – New York Magazine
FEE: $75 per performance Character Descriptions:
PRIN – (short for PRINCESS, early 50s*) Terri’s lover, a handsome stone butch and a highly successful/wealthy entrepreneur with a penchant for the ladies and booze. Loves and is devoted to Terri.
TERRI – (mid-30s*) Prin’s lover. A younger, post-gay lesbian and a student. A devoted lover, dependent on Prin.
CON – (40s) A feminist lesbian. Fran’s life partner, co-parent of Basil, an industrious hospital administrator, sexually frustrated.
FRAN – (40s) Soft butch. Con’s life partner, bio-mom of Basil. Exbusiness partner and long-time devoted friend of Prin. Sexually disinterested.
JONI – (60s) Blind manager of Casitas Bonitas, painter and soothsayer. One thirty-eighth Native American.
*NOTE: The age difference between Prin and Terri must be 15 years or more. About the authors:
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.
Other Five Lesbian Brothers titles available from Samuel French:
Brides of the Moon Brave Smiles...Another Lesbian TragedyThe SecretariesVoyage to Lesbos
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