5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche at Beloit College Neese Theatre

“5 Lesbians Eating Quiche,” co-written by Andrew Hobgood and Evan Linder, finds five women assembled in a church basement (along with the audience) for the 1956 annual meeting of the Susan B. Anthony Society for the Sisters of Gertrude Stein’s annual quiche breakfast. The normally idyllic gathering, where the motto is “no men, no meat, all manners,” is upended when the Society’s matriarchs must confront the startling revelation that an atom bomb may be falling on their fair city. As fears are confronted and confessions fly, the chipper ladies stay firm in their commitment that the quiche is a mighty thing and that one must “respect the egg.”

Authors

• Andrew Hobgood
• Evan Linder