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It had been only five years ago that “Fun Home” made history because the first Broadway musical to have a lesbian character that is lead then proceeded to win a passel of Tony Awards before you go for a national tour that included a stop during the Boston Opera House.
But progress often occurs more quietly and incrementally than that. So it is worth noting, and celebrating, the staging of several productions by regional movie theater organizations for which long-term relationships between two ladies act as the fulcrum: business One Theatre’s “Wolf Enjoy, ” Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s “Bright Half lifestyle, ” and Lyric Stage’s just-closed “The Cake. ”
In manners tiny and not-so-small, these performs are assisting to offer a fuller image of the planet we live in — theater’s job, in the end. Yet for several years that photo had been incomplete. Lesbians were either invisible or addressed as a punchline onstage (as were, all too often, gay males). Continue reading “The lesbian experience is being given its dramatic due invisible no more onstage”