SWEET LAND OF LIBERTY, LeftEye Productions at O Bar & Cafe, and Theatre Q at the Halsted Street Cafe. With politicians on all sides using the bugaboo of same-sex marriage to score easy points with conservatives, this 1989 one-act by east-coast lesbian playwright Christi Stewart-Brown is especially timely. Set in a future America where Pat Buchanan’s “holy war” has been won by the moralistic right wing, this dystopian satire concerns two same-sex couples, one male and one female, who pose as married heterosexuals to deceive their friendly fascist overseer Officer Weiss, who periodically barges into their apartment to conduct spot urine tests and check whether the women are pregnant. (In this Aryan nation, where everyone colors their hair blond and the government radio newscaster’s name is Eric LeBlanc, making babies is a “sacred duty” and homosexuality unthinkable.)
