Brava presents
SPANKING MACHINE
A Queer Cuban Comedy-Drama by
MARGA GOMEZ
SEPTEMBER 13 – OCTOBER 11, 2020
Sundays, 5pm (PST)
Live-streaming on Zoom
Brava is pleased to present Marga Gomez live-streaming her new solo play Spanking Machine. Shifting across gender, latitudes and generations, Gomez shares the story of the first boy she ever kissed and how it made them gay forever. “His real name was Agamemnon Perez Jr. but he shortened it to “Scotty” because he thought Agamemnon sounded too Cuban.” By turns funny and disturbing, Gomez recounts growing up brown and queer in New York, sadistic nuns on poppers, tender vampires, childhood misdemeanors, parental post-nasal drip, sexual assault and suppressed memory.
In July 2020, Dixon Place NYC commissioned a two week virtual engagement of the piece and in early September Spanking Machine will be featured at San Diego Repertory's online "Latinx New Play Festival 2020." This virtual presentation of Spanking Machine is adapted from the Spring 2020 stage production, which almost opened at Brava if not for the pandemic, originally directed and with dramaturgy by Adrian Alea. The show runs 75 minutes. Adult themes.
“[Marga’s] a ceramics-shattering, pleasure-seeking, curiosity-gratifying observer with quick wit and a sharper tongue.”
Read the full San Francisco Chronicle Datebook review here.
PERFORMANCE DATES
Sunday, September 13 at 5pm (PST) - All ticket sales go to support the ongoing recovery of Brava's lighting designer Cathie Anderson
Sunday, September 20 at 5pm (PST)
Sunday, September 27 at 5pm (PST)
TICKETS
$20 general admission/sliding scale
ABOUT MARGA
Marga Gomez is the writer/performer of thirteen solo plays which have been presented nationally, Off-Broadway and internationally. She is a Brava Artist-In Residence and is now hosting and curating Brava's "Who's Your Mami Comedy" every third Thursday of the month on Zoom. Her acting credits include theatre roles: Campo Santos San Francisco production of “Translating Selena” (January 2020) Off-Broadway Ars Nova production of “Dr. Rides American Beach House” (November 2019) television: “Sense8” (Netflix) and film: “Sphere” (Warner Brothers.) Marga has taught solo performance in San Francisco at The Kearny Street Workshop, A.C.T and Brava. She will be starting an online solo performance workshop any day now. NBC named her one of eleven “Out Latinos you should know.” Selections from Gomez’s work have been published in several anthologies including Extreme Exposure (TCG Books), HOWL (Crown Press), Out Loud & Laughing (Anchor Books), Contemporary Plays by American Women of Color (Routledge.) For more information visit margagomez.com.