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LESBO SOLO, MY GAY HISTORY PLAY
Written & Performed by Terry Baum
"BEST OF FRINGE!
2024 San Francisco
Fringe Festival
ABOUT THE PLAY
Terry Baum’s newest play, LESBO SOLO, MY GAY HISTORY PLAY, premiered at the 2024 San Francisco Fringe Festival where it delighted audiences and won “Best of Fringe.”
The play begins in 1963 when Terry Baum’s favorite high school teacher is threatened with being fired over rumors that she's a lesbian. It ends 45 years later when Terry runs into that very same teacher -- by that time an honored elder at the gay synagogue in Los Angeles. In between those two events, Terry both witnesses and creates gay history – including her noble march in the 1990 San Francisco Gay Pride Parade as the sole member of the Lesbians for Penetration contingent! (Gee, why couldn’t she find anyone to march with her!?!)
In LESBO SOLO, Terry Baum clearly shows the painful past of the gay community, how incredibly far it has come — and how much fun people have had along the way. Terry’s play is also a powerful reminder, in today's political environment, of what we stand to lose by going backwards.
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.”
-- “Powerful! Terry gives us the wisdom, pain, humor and liberation of both her and her community over a span of 50+ years.”
-- “As always charming, goofy and artful, Terry tells her personal tale and the story of the gay rights movement. Funny and surprisingly touching.”
-- “Terry describes the high school teacher she ‘just adored’ who almost got fired for being gay; the leather dyke guardian angel who scolded her about her internalized homophobia; and the self-love of marching in the pride parade wearing a dildo hat and phallic vegetables.”
-- “You will laugh and cry happy catharsis tears. This was my first lesbian history lesson and I want everyone to see it.”
-- 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!
-- “Thank you for a fabulous performance and bringing back lesbian personal history as well as the history of lesbian liberation. In these times we need this more than ever. Brava!”
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
