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Article: Garbo's girlfriend.(Garbo's Cuban Lover, theater)(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- October 23, 2001
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Actress-writer Odalys Nanin celebrates Latin lesbians--like Greta Garbo's dashing lover Mercedes de Acosta
Why would any sane writer-director-producer-actor choose a career in the demographically challenged arena of lesbian theater? "I have stories that I want to write," answers Odalys Nanin, the Cuban-born creator of the MACHA Theatre Company of Los Angeles. "And if somebody comes in and says that I ought to soften the lesbianism so that it's more for everyone, more commercial, I go, `No. I'm not that kind of a writer.'"
Nanin has committed to creating not just plays about lesbians but about women of color in particular. That's why she came up with her ...