The Ladies' Room
A Play in Six Minutes
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That Uppity Theater Company production
  • 2024, Second Annual Summer Short Play Festival which will include a two-week run of “Pride on Stage."  River & Main Theatre Company  in collaboration with Bay of Quinte Pride.
  • 2023, private readers' group in Tucson, AZ.
  • 2021, published in The Radical Notion: A Feminist Quarterly.
  • 2016, Lake Oswego High School, Oswego, OR.
  • 2012, That Uppity Theater Company, Festival of Gay and Lesbian Short Plays, St. Louis, MO.
  • 2011 Finalist, Heideman Award, National 10-Minute Play Contest, Actors Theatre of Louisville.
  • Published in Black Eye and Other Short Plays.
  • 2010, Won "Best of the Fest" Girl Play: Second Annual Lesbian Play Festival, Women's Theatre Project, Ft. Lauderdale, FL. (reading) 
  • 2009, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. Performance on Youtube.
  •  2009, "The Ladies' Room: A Complicated Conversation" by Gage, On the Issues.
  • 2009, (reading), Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival.
  • 2010, (reading), The Women's Theatre Project, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.

"... we think we're in for five or ten didactic minutes about how we should get over our gender preconceptions. We do get a little of that, and that's fine. But then Gage throws us a curve... The piece suddenly is very moving, and much more than a predictable piece of right thinking."--KDHX.org

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The Women's Theatre Project Production
The scene is just outside a ladies’ room in a shopping mall. Rae, a seventeen-year-old butch, has just been misidentified as a man, and a woman has gone to report her to mall security.  Rae, humiliated and insulted, is hurling insults. Her girlfriend, Nicole, is oddly unsupportive.

When Nicole discloses the reasons for her silence, Rae is overwhelmed emotionally, and she makes a surprising choice when her accuser returns.

Two teenaged girls
Six minutes
Single set (bare stage)