The Story

The Reason

The mission of Dirt Dogs Theatre Co. is threefold: entertain audiences, inspire artists, and honor playwrights. Our mainstage season honors playwrights whose works have been published and have oftentimes been produced multiple times before. Dirt Dogs UNLEASHED was created as a complementary series to our mainstage season to allow us the opportunity to help develop new works and bring forth readings of lesser-produced plays. It is a space to workshop, collaborate, and explore projects that are not yet published or well-known.  

Working with playwright Gwen Flager on Shakin’ the Blue Flamingo is exactly what UNLEASHED is designed to do!  We collaborated closely with Gwen during the rehearsal process. She was in the room for the majority of the rehearsals providing her unique insight into particular aspects of the play and characters. We have laughed together, cried together, broke bread together, and now present this play together.  

Gwen’s story is one that is not seen much on the stage. A girl-meets-girl story—much less a girl-gets-girl story—is still underrepresented.  A play that shows these seven lesbian women as just women, as friends, as confidants, as lovers, as people.

Sit back and enjoy these WOMEN as women.