www.noproscenium.com: After making its debut in Chicago in 2011, 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche would go on to win the 2012 NYC International Fringe Festival as Best Overall Production, setting up the play’s status as a popular choice for up and coming actors to sink their teeth into.
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When I saw the headline “COMING SOON: 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche,” I knew I had to comment because that title is just so effective at grabbing attention and I’d really like to know the content of that play. Once I learned that this play is also about the cold war and the red scare, I became even more intrigued. I mean, some of my favorite things are lesbians and communism. As I continued reading and learned more about the site-specific, immersive experience of this play, I became even more intrigued. I feel like audience interaction is hit or miss, and this one sounds like it might be a hit. I love that they’re asking people to dress up and involve themselves in the show. All things considered, this show sounds awesome and I would really love to see it. I think we should all be doing more theater that is crazy, out there, satirical, immersive, and funny.
As soon as I saw the title of this article, I knew that I was going to be commenting on it. I love the idea of historical figures just sitting down together to have quiche. I think it's a really great setup for a show. From a design standpoint, I'm really excited to see what this show looks like. I love the aesthetic of the 50s: specifically, women's attire and dresses. I think that this show will be a really cool immersive piece, even though, if I'm being honest, I still don't fully understand what the show is about. At the end of the article, they say to pull up in your best '50s party attire, bonus points for bringing quiche, brush up on Cold War history, and get ready to laugh. Those are like all of my favorite things, and I would love an opportunity to see this piece.
A play with a name such as this one has got to be something I say something about. As a 1950s and Cold War enthusiast, I wish I were in a place where I could see this play! A show about lesbian housewives and the Red Scare? Love it! I have such a fascination with site-specific and immersive theatre; it's all my favorite things wrapped into one. Especially since it was started as a Zoom show and is now becoming something real, I really hope it receives rave reviews from the people who see it. It makes me happy to see a show that started so small becoming a real thing! Such a tongue-in-cheek title about something as serious as the Cold War and a nuclear holocaust is so perfect and tells me everything I need to know about this show.
This is an excellent title. It really grabbed my attention, and then I was really excited to see where the article would follow. I think the premise of the play is really interesting, and I'm surprised I haven't heard about it before. Granted, I don't read a lot of plays or follow a lot of playwriting magazines or anything, but still, I am a little bit surprised that I haven't heard of this play before. I'm very interested in seeing this play now, as I think there's something really interesting to explore in the dynamics between would appear to be closeted lesbians that may or may not have killed their husbands in the middle of the cold war. I feel like we don't talk about a lot of what it would be like for gay people at that point in time in this way.I think that this might be in part due to the blacklist, but even so, I'm surprised that in this day and age we don't have people who have made plays about the Red Scare or the House Un-American Activities Committee.
I love the title of this and it is really attention grabbing because it is so funny. I think I have briefly heard of this piece and now that I know it is actually a real show I think I really need to see it. I really like the whole premise of this show, like what do you mean it’s just about historical figures sitting down and eating a quiche together. It is such a random premise for a show but I think it can be done well and hopefully this production of it will prove me right. I really like how they ask people to come dressed up and it kind of involves the audience in a way and also immerses the audience into the show as well. I would be really interested in seeing this show if given the chance because it seems like it could be really funny.
What a title! Seriously, the play “Five Lesbians Eating a Quiche” seems to be just as entertaining of a play as its title informs. The way the play is described sounds like a bubbly, yet extremely informative play about five of the most significant women of the women’s suffrage movement. An interesting note about this production is just how many stages this director, Marissa Pattullo, has gone through with it. From an experimental college piece, to an online zoom show (during the pandemic), to now a “site-specific, immersive experience”, Pattullo’s passion for the play is on full display. Furthermore, the immersiveness only adds to the entertainment of the show. To do such a work in a collaborative manner with the audience, you can simply “play along and sit back to enjoy the chaos.” The fact that this play already has some audience participation, yet Pattullo choses to play it up and emphasize it for her rendition, should shape to be quite interesting.
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