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Ladies and Gentlemen by Emma Donoghue
article in SF Bay Guardian by Amir Baghdadchi (February 19, 2003)

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Dress for success A celebrity male impersonator, strutting the nation's stages with a female impersonator and stealing the hearts of thousands of young ladies, falls for a pretty stage dresser and marries her in a legal ceremony performed by a minister of the gospel. The near future in San Francisco? Think again. It happened in America in the 1880s, and the incredible true story of Annie Hindle, vaudeville legend, is now the basis of the new play Ladies and Gentlemen, by Irish writer Emma Donoghue and produced by the Shee Theatre Company. Donoghue (best known for her collection of reimagined fairy tales, Kissing the Witch, and the historical novel Slammerkin, and winner of the Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction) is on hand at tonight's (February 22, 2003) opening-night gala for a postshow conversation about the play and her work on gender and sexuality. Through March 15. Thurs.-Sat., 8 p.m., Exit Theatre, 156 Eddy, S.F. $15-$20 (March 10, pay what you can; opening night $25). (415) 999-8870, www.theshee.org.

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