Five Lesbian Brothers: Four Plays

by Maureen Angelos, Babs Davy, The Five Lesbian Brothers

Book Overview

The Five Lesbian Brothers are not only gaspingly hilarious and blithely subversive, they are fully capable of creating characters named Dawn, Patty and Peaches. Their work travels from the Pygo Moon System to the elite Tilue-Pussenheimer Academy to my favorite town in all world literature-Big Bone, Oregon. Reading The Brothers' plays is addictive, although I am told that the group will come to your home and perform them. But be prepared: these women...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1559361662
• ISBN13: 9781559361668
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Lesbian Brotherly Love at its Purest!

Suitable for library collections catering to murderous, slimfast chugging lesbian astronauts and the general public alike. Well, who doesn't love the Five Lesbian Brothers' sharpwitted but unpretentions and life-affirming lesbionic tales? Absurdist theatre has never been so knee-splapping!

Love 'em!

I adore the Five Lesbian Brothers. Brave Smiles, which is one of the plays in this book, is one of the funniest plays ever written. Love 'em! Jennifer Parello, author of Dateland

New York City Loves its Brothers

The Brothers are a New York original! Finally, scripts to recall their wildly entertaining plays! While these are best appreciated live and in the flesh; it cannot be denied that reading them is a blast. These plays are absolutely brilliant: silly and subversive, bawdy and tender. Imagine John Waters, The Ridiculous Theatre Co. and The Carol Burnett Show all thrown into a blender - with a nod to Hollywood's sapphic melodrama. Murderous secretaries! Love and heartbreak in an orphanage! Lesbians in space - with a monkey??!! In a word - hysterical; and a great literary taste of NYC theatre.