Fringe winner 5 LESBIANS EATING A QUICHE is a tasty treat at the SoHo Playhouse (photo by Christina Stradone)
5 LESBIANS EATING A QUICHE
SoHo Playhouse
15 Vandam St.
Saturday – Tuesday through January 6, $40-$50
www.5lesbianseatingaquiche.com
www.sohoplayhouse.com
In the 1983 thriller 10 to Midnight, tough guy Charles Bronson plays a cop who grabs a slice of quiche in a hospital cafeteria. When his daughter asks him about it, he angrily says, “I thought it was pie!” There’s no telling what the Death Wish star would think of the New Colony’s 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche, which is currently satisfying audiences at the SoHo Playhouse. One of the winners of Best Overall Production at this summer’s New York International Fringe Festival, the show, written by Evan Linder and Andrew Hobgood and directed by Sarah Gitenstein, follows the madcap adventures of members of the Susan B. Anthony Society for the Sisters of Gertrude Stein in 1956 as they prepare for their annual quiche breakfast but also have to deal with the cold war, as a communist nuclear strike might be on its way. “New York’s theatrical elite hoped this show would never see the light of day, but after the amazing response it received at the Fringe they had no luck trying to stick their finger in the dyke,” SoHo Playhouse artistic director Darren Lee Cole said when announcing the limited engagement. The playful show stars Caitlin Chuckta, Rachel Farmer, Megan Johns, Thea Lux, and Maari Suorsa as the hungry title characters.
TICKET GIVEAWAY: The run of 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche has been extended to January 6, and twi-ny has four pairs of tickets to give away for free. Just send your name, daytime phone number, and all-time favorite quiche flavor to contest@twi-ny.com by Monday, November 12, at 3:00 to be eligible. All entrants must be twenty-one years of age or older; four winners will be selected at random. In addition, twenty free tickets are being given away every night to those displaced by Hurricane Sandy; just provide proof of identification that includes your ZIP code and use the code word “Sandy.”