![]() ![]() Beth’s story resumes in California in 1960, where she’s miserable and frustrated doing the wife and mom act, missing Laura and wondering about the life she might have if she could only be honest. Laura is in Greenwich Village a month later, lusting after her straight roommate Marcie (Christina Groom), pining for Beth and falling into Beebo Brinker’s bed and heart. The story then splits into two time periods. Laura sets out for New York hoping her lover will join her, but Beth opts instead for a conventional, safe marriage. Stock) two sorority sisters who share the love that dare not speak its name. The plot centers on Laura and Beth, (Blaze Powers and Sandi M. ![]() Bannon created one of the most enduring characters of lesbian lit, Beebo Brinker (played here by Niki Fridh) which became the archetypal butch. ![]() The novels deal with sexual identity and ostracism from society and was somewhat based on the author’s own life. Chapman, is based on six lesbian novels by Ann Bannon, published between 19. The play, by Kate Moira Ryan and Linda S. Steamy, sultry and sexy, Kutumba Theatre Project’s production of The Beebo Brinker Chronicles is a kitschy flashback to the closeted pre-Stonewall world of lesbians and gay men. ![]()
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