Out of a small, hand-to-mouth women's theater collective called the
WOW Cafe located on the lower east side of Manhattan there emerged
some of the most important theater 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the earliest productions, and unpublished photographs, and suggests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.
"A rich and detailed picture of a particular historical moment
that has now passed . . . Davy's longstanding association with this
world pays off handsomely--it is impossible to imagine that anyone
could write a more informative portrait."
--Charlotte Canning, University of Texas at Austin
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