Carolyn Gage
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      • The Second Coming of Joan of Arc
      • La Seconde Venue de Jeanne d'Arc
      • Joana Dark - a re-volta
      • Giovanna d'Arco - la rivolta
      • ВТОРОТО ПРИШЕСТВИЕ НА ЖАНА Д’АРК (Bulgarian tranlsation of The Second Coming of Joan
      • 贞德再临_中文 (Mandarin translation of The Second Coming of Joan of Arc)
      • The Last Reading of Charlotte Cushman
      • Crossing the Rapelands
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      • How to Write a Country-Western Song
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      • The Abolition Plays
      • The Anastasia Trials in the Court of Women
      • AXED!
      • Black Star
      • Coming About
      • Esther and Vashti
      • The Goddess Tour
      • In McClintock's Corn
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      • Ain't Got No - I Got Life
      • The A-Mazing Yamashita and the Millennial Gold-Diggers
      • Artemisia and Hildegard
      • Battered on Broadway
      • Bite My Thumb
      • The Boundary Trial of John Proctor
      • Cookin' with Typhoid Mary
      • The Countess and the Lesbians
      • The Drum Lesson
      • Easter Sunday
      • Entr'acte or The Night Eva Le Gallienne Was Raped
      • The Enunciation to Mary
      • The Evil That Men Do: The Story of Thalidomide
      • Female Nude Seated
      • The Gage and Mr. Comstock
      • The Greatest Actress Who Ever Lived
      • Harriet Tubman Visits A Therapist
      • Head in the Game
      • Hermeneutic Circlejerk
      • Heterosexuals Anonymous
      • Jane Addams and the Devil Baby
      • A Labor Play
      • Lace Curtain Irish
      • Lighting Martha
      • Little Sister
      • Louisa May Incest
      • Mason-Dixon
      • The Obligatory Scene
      • The P.E. Teacher
      • The Parmachene Belle
      • The Pele Chant
      • Planchette
      • The Poorly-Written Play Festival
      • Radicals
      • The Rules of the Playground
      • St. Frances and the Fallen Angels
      • Souvenirs from Eden
      • Starpattern
      • 'Til the Fat Lady Sings
      • Valerie Solanas At Matteawan
    • Short Short Plays >
      • 52 Pickup
      • At Sea
      • Black Eye
      • El Bobo
      • Calamity Jane Sends a Message to Her Daughter
      • The Clarity of Pizza
      • The Great Fire
      • Hrotsvitha's Vision
      • The Intimacy Coordinator
      • The Ladies' Room
      • Miss Le Gallienne Announces the New Season
      • On the Other Hand
      • Patricide
      • The Pickle Play
    • Dramatic Adaptations >
      • Amy Lowell: In Her Own Words
      • Brett Remembers
      • Deep Haven
      • El Bobo (one-act play)
      • El Bobo (short screenplay)
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        • Touring Production of Emily & Sue >
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          • Open Me Carefully
      • Georgia and the Butch
      • I Have Come to Show You Death
      • Speak Fully The One Awful Word
      • We Too Are Drifting (Screenplay)
    • Special Index: Plays That Deal with Sexual Violence Against Women and Girls
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  • Touring Work
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      • Lace Curtain Irish
      • Crossing the Rapelands
      • The Parmachene Belle (performance)
      • Calamity Jane Sends a Message to Her Daughter (performance)
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    • Lectures >
      • Lizzie Borden and Lesbian Theatre
      • The Secret Life of Lesbians
      • Paradigms and Paradigm-Shifting
      • When Sex Is Not the Metaphor For Intimacy
      • Meeting the Ghost of Hamlet's Father
      • A Theatrical Journey Through Maine's Lesbian History
      • Tara and Other Lies
      • Teena Brandon's Inconvenient Truth
    • Workshops >
      • The Art of the Dramatic Monologue
      • Acting Lesbian
      • Interrupting Racism: A Workshop
      • Playwriting Techniques for Poets and Fiction Writers
      • Ugly Ducklings Workshop
    • Residencies
    • The Lesbian Tent Revival >
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      • The Lesbian Tent Revival Sermon on Dying Well
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      • Supplemental Sermons
      • Hotter Than Hell
      • The Synapse Pendant
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The Lesbian Tent Revival at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival

The Lesbian Tent Revival

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Sister Carolyn of the Sisterhood of the Sacred Synapse
The Lesbian Tent Revival is a unique combination of comedy, radical feminist politic, communal ritual, and riotous high spirits. "Sister Carolyn" of the Sisterhood of the Sacred Synapse brings an evangelical fervor to her followers in sermons that run the gamut from lesbian relationships to quantum physics, from the anatomy of the clitoris to the microbiology of depression. The Tent Revival rocks out to a combination of feminist anthems, showtunes, and radically appropriated hymns.

“Carolyn is a brilliant thinker, performer, and activist. Using skillful delivery of profound thoughts and humor, Carolyn’s Lesbian Tent Revival builds lesbian community and provokes thought, laughter, and conversation about important radical feminist topics.” -- Mary McClintock, "Gather the Lesbians," Northampton, MA.

  • 2017, Michfest Framily Reunion, Grand Rapids area, MI.
  • 2016, BLAST!, West Palm Beach, FL and The Resort on Carefree Boulevard, North Ft. Myers, FL.
  • 2007-2015, Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, Hart, MI.
  • 2014, National Gathering of Old Lesbians Organizing for Change (OLOC), Oakland, CA.
  • 2013, Regional Gathering of OLOC, St. Louis, MO.
  • 2013, Superstition Mountain Resort, Apache Junction, AZ.
  • 2012, National Gathering of OLOC, Boston (Woburn), MA.
  • 2011, Vancouver Lesbian-Feminist Dinner Party, Vancouver, BC.
  • 2011, Victoria Senior Care, Victoria, BC
  • 2011  Roseburg, OR; and Burlington, VT.
  • 2011  Gather the Women, Northampton, MA.
  • 2011,  Sappho’s Salon, Women and Children First Bookstore, Chicago.
  • 2011,  LGBT Centers in Racine and Milwaukee, WI.
  • 2010, Women's Week, Provincetown, MA.
  • 2009, Deer Creek House, Roseburg, OR.
  • 2009, (Excerpts), The Third Annual Lesbian All-Star Revue, St. Lawrence Arts Center, Portland, ME.
  • 2009, Women in the Arts Festival, Lansing, MI.
  • 2009, We Are 1, Durham, NC.
  • 2008, National Women's Music Festival, Madison, WI.

Testimonials

The Lesbian Tent Revival Radio Hour Podcasts (set of 24 sermons)

Special Lesbian Tent Revival Audio Podcast: Sermon on Dying Well

Collections of Sermons
  • Sermons for a Lesbian Tent Revival
  • Supplemental Sermons for a Lesbian Tent Revival
  • Hotter Than Hell: More Sermons for a Lesbian Tent Revival
  • Sermons for a Hot Kitchen from the Lesbian Tent Revival
The Synapse Pendant
The lyrics for Song of the Synapse

Read Gage's interview, "Radical Spirituality Found in Lesbian Tent Revival," The Rainbow Times, March 5, 2011, Northampton, MA.

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