Lesbian Stages: Plays by Sarah Dreher

by Sarah Dreher

Five of Sarah Dreher's wonderfully poignant and funny plays about the complexities and rewards of relationships. From a lesbian perspective!

Contains:
1. Alumnae News: The Doris Day Years
2. Base Camp
3. Backward, Turn Backward
4. This Brooding Sky
5. Hollandia '45

Genres: Drama, Plays, Lesbian, LGBT

310 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1988

About the author

Born March 26, 1937, in Hanover, Pa., Sarah Dreher attended Wellesley College and went on to earn her doctorate in clinical psychology from Purdue University. She moved in 1965 to Amherst, MA where she established her private practice. She was the co-founder of Sunrise-Amanecer Inc., a nonprofit organization, serving as president and clinical director for seven years. She was a member of the Welsh Society of Western New England and an activist during the women's movement.

Dreher was the author of the Stoner McTavish lesbian detective series. The seventh in the series, Shaman's Moon, won the Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Mystery for 1998. Dreher was also the author of several plays and a romance novel Solitaire and Brahms. She was the recipient of the 2005 Alice B. Readers' Award.

Reviews

[Cate Culpepper · Rating 5 out of 5]

"The moon was full the night I died."

Some heartbreaking, some laugh out loud funny. We lost a wonderful writer in Sarah Dreher.

[Lex · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was reading through all of my reviews from this year and decided to give it a delayed rating of 5 stars, which I have been meaning to do for a while.

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It would feel wrong to give this collection an overall rating because all of the plays were so different from each other that I can't really think of them as a whole. However, if I had to rate it, I would probably give it 5 stars. Individual ratings:

Alumnae News - 4.75
Base Camp - 4
Backward, Turn Backward - 4
This Brooding Sky - 4
Hollandia '45 - 5

Also worth noting are Dreher's introductions to each play, which I felt added value to the collection and will be especially enjoyable for those who are already fans of her work.