Bar Dykes
BAR DYKES
By Merril Mushroom
Directed by Mark Finley and Virginia Baeta
Cast: Amy Bizjak*, Kiebpoli Calnek*, Uré Egbuho, Alex Guhde, Brooke M. Haney*, Azalea Lewis, Kimberly Singh, Moira Stone*, Angie Tennant*, Emily Verla, Jeanette Villafane
* Member, Actors’ Equity Association
The cast of TOSOS’s summer 2019 production of Merril Mushroom’s BAR DYKES
This summer of Stonewall 50 and World Pride, The Other Side Of Silence (TOSOS), NYC’s longest-producing LGTBQ+ theater company, continues to honor our community’s history by bringing Merril Mushroom’s long-lost play, BAR DYKES, for it’s premiere on the NYC stage.
Directed by Virginia Baeta and Mark Finley, the audience steps behind a nondescript door where it’ll find a very distinct clientele and world of butches and femmes. Playwright Mushroom, drawing on her experiences as a lesbian in the Deep South and New York City in the pre-Stonewall era, transports us into the hidden subculture of lesbian society in mid-century America, and into the women and their relationships in a precarious time.
Follow 11 bar dykes as they drink, dance, date, duke it out, and grab a few undisturbed moments. BAR DYKES will be an immersive staging so the audience can experience and eavesdrop on a girls’ night out captured in time as it once was.
