Torn Tulle (Theater Rhinoceros) October 1982
Doris Fish had a small role as a drag queen in Chuck Solomon’s production of Charles Henrich’s Torn Tulle at the renowned queer Theater Rhinoceros in 1982. She starred alongside Alexis Miranda, R. Scott Lyons and J. Carlton Powers as “four drag queen hookers trapped in the backstage dressing room of a crumbling male porno house.” (BAR)
She was seemingly cast as much for her name as her talent.
“He later learned that the audition had been solely pro forma: “They thought it was a plus to have someone who had some kind of a vague following.” As it was—at one point or another everyone in the cast mentioned a friend or acquaintance who had said, “Oh, you’re in that play that Doris Fish is doing.”
Excerpt From
Who Does That Bitch Think She Is?
Craig Seligman
The play is described as being viscerally intense, with simulated rape and sex as the queens are abused by their pimp and a cop, mixed with low brow slapstick. The queens all got generally good reviews.
