Diversionary Theatre

July 15, 2025

4545 Park Boulevard #101, San Diego, California 92116

Psycho Beach Party
by Charles Busch

Join us for our next edition of Gay Play Tuesdays, on July 15th at 7pm, when we will read Psycho Beach Party by Charles Busch (1987). This camp masterwork by playwright and drag legend Charles Busch is a zany mash-up of Gidget, 1960s beach party movies and Hitchcock psychological suspense thrillers.

Chicklet Forrest, a teenage tomboy, desperately wants to be part of the surf crowd on Malibu Beach in 1962. One thing getting in her way is her unfortunate tendency towards split personalities. Among them is a sassy check out girl, an elderly radio talk show hostess, a male model named Steve and the accounting firm of Edelman and Edelman. Her most dangerous alter ego is a sexually voracious vixen named Ann Bowman who has nothing less than world domination on her mind.

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