Patient: The Lesbian Play, by Riley McCarthy [Dr. 2's Diagnosis]

Patient: The Lesbian Play

Parents: Riley McCarthy

Insurance: PagePay Plus

Symptoms: guns, lipstick, sass, ass

Diagnosis: Nuts

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Bio:

Riley McCarthy is a recent graduate from the Marymount Manhattan College. Their plays draw out the conflicts and differing interests between the colors of the QLGBT rainbow. McCarthy's plays have had live performances at the Hudson Guild Theater and the Marymount Manhattan College.

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Patient Description:

Before this play, I was never informed that the politically correct term for lesbian is "vagitarian." The Lesbian Play is a kinda-definitive guide on the art of women, loving women.

Club president Mimi is getting ready for a special meeting at their college’s Women Loving Women club. Laurel helps prepare the party for member Beatrice’s surprise birthday party. One by one, the lady-loving members step in, eager to surprise Beatrice before Beatrice surprises them:

Beatrice comes out to everyone as a non-binary member of the Women Loving Women club.

We join the college party to drop in on typical lesbian irreverence: chick talk without boundaries, heavy liquor, and weed-smokey f-bombs. McCarthy’s characters are unstoppable from the start: with jokes that are timely—and actually funny. The banter amongst fellow lesbs is true, college level, lesbiology.

Play quality got kinky during its polarizing debates on gay authenticity, female authenticity, versus QLGBT diversity. I was hardly enriched or convinced by any single line from any single character. 

Mimi is a straw (wo)man who barks her concerns to her Women Loving Women club. The club barks back. Beez is coming out as non-binary. That mere fact meanders throughout the story without much competition. The playwright is young, but apparently winning public praise for being an effective QLGBT voice. 

Brute authenticity and black nail polish bring this play to life. Without fruitful dialectics, however, this play is a political rant that’s all puckered up with not much to say.

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