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Last Summer At Bluefish Cove Shandol Theatre (NYC) - 1980
Jane Chambers' award winning play centers on a close-knit group of lesbians who have been ostracized or abandoned by their families and whose careers are jeopardized by coming out. Beyond its gay-pride mantra, Last Summer at Bluefish Cove is a tender story about the joys of friendship, love, nature and independence.
The play tells the story of Eva, who rents a cabin at Bluefish Cove for the summer without knowing it is populated exclusively by lesbians. Eva ended up at the Cove after packing the car one day and driving away from her repressive marriage of 12 years. By the time she realizes this is not going to be the place to meet a new man, her feelings for Lil, a summer resident of the Cove, have already been stirred. But even after the women get involved, there's still something Eva doesn't know: Lil has cancer. Jean played the part of Lil, the cancer-stricken lesbian who spends a last summer with friends in a
summer resort on the north shore of Long Island. Jean's performance earned her a Drama Desk Nomination and the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award. |