Tides Theatre Presents West Coast Premiere of '5 Lesbians Eating A Quiche' at Phoenix Theatre

Tides Theatre is proud to announce the West Coast premiere of '5 Lesbians Eating A Quiche.' It's 1956 and somewhere in middle America a women's group called the "Susan B. Anthony Society for the Sisters of Gertrude Stein" is celebrating their annual quiche breakfast. Code abounds in this society and the play�"code so hidden that even the five society members onstage don't all realize they are members of a latently lesbian group in the repressed '50s. They not only celebrate quiche, but they revere eggs and abhor sausages�"especially when mixed with eggs. (One society member committed the ultimate faux pas a year earlier by bringing a sausage quiche to the celebration). Conformity is not the only characteristic of the fifties that's skewered in this 90-minute comedy�"the red scare and nuclear paranoia of the decade are targets as well. When the five repressed lesbians are confined to a fallout shelter following a nuclear attack, the emotions and suppressed desires explode with greater force than the H-bomb.

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Jennifer Welch is the Producing Artistic Director of Tides Theatre, a founding member of the Howells Transmitter Arts Collaborative, a contributor to Dramalist.com and the Actors Theatre of San Francisco. Her directing credits include; Waiting For Godot, The Grapes Of Wrath, Glengarry Glen Ross, Buried Child, The Trip To Bountiful, A View From The Bridge, The Rose Tattoo, The Night Of The Iguana, Lysistrata, The Real Inspector Hound and Killer Joe. She currently teaches acting classes in San Francisco and trained at the University of Kansas, A.C.T and the Jean Shelton Actors Lab.

Cary Cronholm Rose is the Associate Artistic Director and Literary Manager of Tides Theatre. She has a B.A. from Kenyon College. She is a graduate of The School at Steppenwolf in Chicago and B.A.D.A’s Midsummer in Oxford program. In Chicago she has worked with Second City, Improv Olympic, The Chopin, and the Steppenwolf Garage. Cary is a proud company member of Chicago’s Collaboraction Theater and a founding company member of Chicago’s Pine Box Theatre.

* actors appearing courtesy of Actors Equity Association **June 15th features an opening night celebration at 8pm with ticket prices at $38.

Photo Credit: Michael David Rose Photography, Larissa Archer, Caitlin Evenson, Susan Shay*, Sophia LaPaglia + Karina Wolf