5/12/2023 0 Comments Ann bannon beebo brinker![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That is why a play like The Beebo Brinker Chronicles should be hailed for the triumph that it is.īased on a series of lesbian pulp fiction novels written between 19, by iconic novelist Ann Bannon, the Beebo Brinker Chronicles was adapted for the stage in 2009 by playwrights Kate Moira Ryan and Linda S. Women’s histories, experiences and stories remain largely unexplored. Meaning that 80% of the stories told upon the stage (even those with female leads,) are told from a male perspective. ![]() In America 60% of theatre audiences are female, yet only 20% of all plays produced are written by women. And if women in general have been relegated to the footnotes, then lesbians have typically been omitted and erased altogether. Women’s works and deeds have most often been co-opted by males or referenced only in the footnotes of historical documentation. Woolf’s quote has been adapted to read, “For most of history, Anonymous was a woman,” and epitomizes the place of women’s stories in the telling of our history. In 1929, British novelist Virginia Woolf, ran her fingers along the spines of the books in her library wondering why no woman in Shakespeare’s era had written “ a word of that extraordinary literature when every other man, it seemed, was capable of song or sonnet.” She concluded, “ Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.” ![]()
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