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Out of a small, hand-to-mouth women's theatre collective called the WOW Cafe located on the lower east side of Manhattan there emerged some of the most important theatre troupes and performance artists of the 1980s and 1990s. Appearing on the cultural scene at a critical turning point in both the women's movement and feminist theory, WOW put a witty, hilarious, gender-bending, and erotically charged aesthetic on stage for women in general and lesbians in particular. Featured performers included the Split Britches Company, the Five Lesbian Brothers, Carmelita Tropicana, Holly Hughes, Lisa Kron, Deb Margolin, Reno, Peggy Shaw, and Lois Weaver. For three decades the WOW Cafe Theatre has nurtured fledgling women writers, designers, and performers who continue to create important performance work. Lady Dicks and Lesbian Brothers offers the first critical history of the WOW Cafe, based on dozens of interviews with WOW performers and other participants, newspaper reviews of the earliest productions, and unpublished photographs, and suggests why the collective has had such amazing longevity and an enduring legacy.Product Identifiers
PublisherT.H.E. University of Michigan Press
ISBN-139780472051229
eBay Product ID (ePID)179552733
Product Key Features
Publication Year2011
Number of Pages264 Pages
Publication NameLady Dicks and Lesbian Brothers: Staging the Unimaginable at the Wow Cafe Theatre
LanguageEnglish
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaGender Issues
AuthorCatherine Davy
SeriesTriangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorCatherine Davy