In mythology and in works of art (made by men, of course) tribades were depicted as women with enormous clitorises (clitorides, for the plural-correct) that could penetrate people.
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Both "Full Circle" (1973), a wartime drama, and "The Night of the Tribades" (1977), with her frequent film co-star Max von Sydow, had particularly short New York runs.
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In addition, women passed or dressed as men and sometimes even married other women, and some (usually from the lower class) were classified as tribades. They were often involved in petty criminality and prostitution. After the Batave Republic was founded in 1795, the number of prosecutions for sodomy increased again, but the severity of the punishments lessened. Some tribades were prosecuted for attempted sodomy and were imprisoned.
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Her film composing work has been done under her name and under a collaboration name, Night Kisses, along with filmmakers Sophia Cacciola and Michael J. Epstein, scoring their films, TEN, Magnetic, Blood of the Tribades and Clickbait.
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Epstein, in collaboration with his wife, Sophia Cacciola, has directed four feature films: TEN, Magnetic, Blood of the Tribades and Clickbait. The pair are focused on creating sociopolitical genre films. Their film Clickbait started playing at festivals in 2018. Epstein describes his process for creating films as thematic.
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Blood of the Tribades is a 2016 horror film directed by Sophia Cacciola and Michael J. Epstein. The script, style, and look are heavily influenced by 1970s Euro lesbian vampire films. The film is distributed in North America on VOD and DVD/blu-ray by Launch Over and VHS by SRS Media.
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She received subsequent nominations for, Vivat! Vivat Regina! (1972), Indiscretions (1995) and The Retreat from Moscow (2004). Other stage credits include The Tempest (Old Vic 1962), Exit the King (Edinburgh Festival and Royal Court 1963), The Promise (New York 1967), The Night of the Tribades (New York 1977), Medea (Young Vic 1985), A Delicate Balance (Haymarket, West End 1997) and Doubt (New York 2006). Atkins co- created the television dramas Upstairs, Downstairs (1971–1975) and The House of Elliot (1991–1993) with Jean Marsh. She also wrote the screenplay for the 1997 film Mrs Dalloway.
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Lady Frances was the subject (under the pseudonym "Myra") of a series of love poems published by George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne from 1712. She was the subject of a debt action brought by an Oxford don, William King (nephew of Sir Thomas Smyth), who alleged she owed him several thousand pounds. He lost the case and in revenge, in 1732, wrote a satire against her, entitled "The Toast", which portrayed her as a promiscuous bisexual witch and lesbian named "Myra", and alleged that she ruled "a social circle of tribades in Dublin", her primary lover being Lady Margaret Allen.Edward Shorter: Written in the flesh, a history of desire.
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Suburban Baths, Pompeii Greek words for a woman who prefers sex with another woman include hetairistria (compare hetaira, "courtesan" or "companion"), tribas (plural tribades), and Lesbia; Latin words include the loanword tribas, fricatrix ("she who rubs"), and virago.Bernadette J. Brooten, Love between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism (University of Chicago Press, 1996), p. 4. References to sex between women are infrequent in the Roman literature of the Republic and early Principate. Ovid, who advocates generally for a heterosexual lifestyle, finds it "a desire known to no one, freakish, novel ... among all animals no female is seized by desire for female".Ovid, Metamorphoses 9.727, 733–4, as cited in Potter (2009), p. 346.
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Although this term refers to a specific sex act between women today, in the past it was commonly used to describe female-female sexual love in general, and women who had sex with women were called Tribads or Tribades. As author Rictor Norton explains: > The tribas, lesbian, from Greek tribein, to rub (i.e. rubbing the pudenda > together, or clitoris upon pubic bone, etc.), appears in Greek and Latin > satires from the late first century. The tribade was the most common > (vulgar) lesbian in European texts for many centuries. ‘Tribade’ occurs in > English texts from at least as early as 1601 to at least as late as the mid- > nineteenth century before it became self-consciously old-fashioned—it was in > current use for nearly three centuries.
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In 1977, von Sydow made his Broadway debut alongside Eileen Atkins and Bibi Andersson in Per Olov Enquist's The Night of the Tribades, a play about the writer August Strindberg. In 1981, he starred with Anne Bancroft in the Tom Kempinski play Duet for One about the cellist Jacqueline du Pré. Von Sydow made his British stage debut at The Old Vic in 1988 as Prospero in The Tempest, a role he first played in Sweden three decades ago. In the 1980s, in addition to Flash Gordon and Never Say Never Again, von Sydow also appeared in John Milius's Conan the Barbarian (1982), Jan Troell's Flight of the Eagle (1982), Rick Moranis's & Dave Thomas's Strange Brew (1983), David Lynch's Dune (1984) and Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters (1986).
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In the 2001 film Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter, Jesus Christ fights vampires to protect lesbians from becoming a vampire. Another spoof of the genre, entitled Lesbian Vampire Killers, was released in 2009.Lesbian Vampire Killers Blood of the Tribades, released in 2016, is an updated variant on the trope and was described as "a modern take on 70s Euro arthouse and Hammer lesbian vampire movies that...takes on today’s stormy political climate, religious zealotry and gender issues." Erzsébet Báthory, the historical true- life prototype of the modern lesbian vampire, appears as a character in several films—although not always with the lesbian element—including Daughters of Darkness (1971) by Belgian director Harry Kumel, Hammer Films' Countess Dracula (1971), Immoral Tales (1973) directed by Walerian Borowczyk, The Bloody Countess (Ceremonia sangrienta) (1973) directed by Jorge Grau, and Eternal (2005).
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Started in 2014 by James Harmon II, the first festival was quickly put together to showcase films that were originally scheduled to play the canceled Lewiston Auburn Film Festival.. After the first festival's success and support from the city, plans were made to continue the festival as an annual event. The festival originally took place in May, but has moved to October in subsequent years. In 2019, for their sixth year, Brian Boisvert is serving as the festival director. The festival screenings are typically broken into recurrent categories, including: Horror Friday, Documentary Night, Mixed Genre Day, and SIFF After Hours.. The popular Horror Friday section has included popular films with actors in attendance, including: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre with Gunnar Hansen and Nightbreed with Anne Bobby.. The horror series has also included independent films, such as: Blood of the Tribades, Peelers, and In the Dark.
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Järegård was born in Ystad. He received his acting training at Malmö City Theatre. From 1962 he was an actor in Sweden's prominent Royal Dramatic Theatre, where he came to perform a number of much celebrated parts: his eccentric Hitler in Schweik in the Second World War by Bertolt Brecht (1963), Estragon in the legendary 1966 Dramaten- staging of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, Thersites in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida 1967, Orgon in Molière's Tartuffe 1971, Hjalmar Ekdahl in Ingmar Bergman's 1972 production of Ibsen's The Wild Duck, Nero in Jean Racine's Britannicus (1974), a spot-on portrayal of August Strindberg in play Tribadernas natt (The Night of the Tribades) by Per Olov Enquist, the title role in Richard III by Shakespeare (1980) and the extremely creepy – and slightly perverted – boss Sven in VD ("CEO") by Stig Larsson in 1985, among others. Järegård had a taste for villainous and dark characters, and enjoyed playing them.
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An accomplished stage actress, Hale made her professional debut at Stratford as a walk-on. She subsequently appeared in rep at Canterbury, Windsor and Ipswich; then at the Playhouse, Liverpool in 1967, where her parts included the title role in Gigi, and Juliet in Romeo and Juliet. At the Thorndike Theatre in Leatherhead in October 1975 she played Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion, followed by an acclaimed portrayal of Nina, opposite Alan Bates, in Chekhov's The Seagull at the Playhouse, Derby in July 1976, making her West End debut in the production when it transferred to the Duke of York's Theatre in August 1976.Who's Who in the Theatre, 17th edition (1981) Other roles included: Marie Caroline David in The Tribades (Hampstead Theatre Club, May 1978); Melanie in Boo Hoo (Open Space Theatre, July 1978); and Bobbi Michele in Neil Simon's Last of the Red Hot Lovers (Royal Exchange, Manchester, April 1979 – transferring to the Criterion Theatre in November 1979). In 1981, Hale played the leading role of Josie in Nell Dunn's play, Steaming, at the Comedy Theatre in London and received a 1981 Olivier Award nomination for her performance.
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