She's Always Liked the Girls Best : Lesbian Plays by Claudia K. Allen (1993, Paperback)

Chicago-based playwright Claudia Allen is one of the great unsung heroes of gay theatre. Her works carry a view of lesbian life, often in a rural setting, rarely seen in other writers (if anybody else, she reminds me of Shirlene Holmes). This collections contains four early plays ripe for revival. ROOMERS looks at the residents of a boarding house, where the owner and her best friend's daughter deal with issues of race, lookism and sexuality as they fall in love. RAINCHECK shows two former childhood friends drifting back together into a lesbian relationship in a world of abusive husbands and pitifully aging elders. HANNAH FREE deals with issues of aging within the community and the fight for equal treatment before marriage equality. In a departure from the others, SCREEN QUEENS shows two former lovers, one-time Hollywood stars, reunited for a stage production years after a bitter break-up.