The Beebo Brinker Chronicles
A staged adaption of Ann Bannon's 1950's pulp gay fiction
September 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 23, 24
1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway
Betty Burns directs local all stars Dana Moore, Delovely Delisa, Jesse Mills, Keilana Decker, Amber Miller and Sean Green in this hard boiled peek into the history of gay culture.
The time is 1950s America, the decade across which Beebo Brinker spans. Laura (Dana Moore), a sensitive young Midwesterner, arrives in 1952 Greenwich Village to escape the heartache of a failed romance with her true love, Beth (Delovely Delisa) ,who marries the steadfast Charlie (Sean Green), even though her heart belongs to Laura. Once in New York, the impressionable Laura befriends Jack (Jesse Mills), a jaded older gay man, crushes on her straight roommate, Marcie (Amber Miller) , and falls into the bed of the title character Beebo Brinker (Keilana Decker), an aggressive and brash butch lesbian who has slept with half the West Village it seems. Meanwhile, out in California, Beth is waging an internal war between her duty as a wife and mother (which she would like to walk away from) and her true nature (which she would finally like to give in to).