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Swimming With Lesbians


  • Brava Theater Center Cabaret 2773 24th Street San Francisco, CA, 94110 United States (map)

Brava Presents

Swimming With Lesbians

October 6 - 22, 2023
Fri & Sat at 7:30pm
Sun at 5:00pm

PREVIEW on Friday, October 6

Brava proudly presents the West Coast Premiere of Marga Gomez’s fourteenth one person show, Swimming With Lesbians. This full steam farce takes place aboard “The Celesbian,” regarded as the most notorious cruise ship on the high seas. Throughout the performance Marga morphs into a boatload of hilarious queer characters including: Isabelle a disgraced Lacrosse player yearning for her first Lesbian affair, Captain Debbie who is always ready to go down in the ship, and the outwardly jovial but secretly meek bingo caller Pru Perez. Things veer off course when Captain Debbie orders Pru to conduct pool games on the Lezzo Deck. How these intrepid Lesbians navigate through danger, lust and endless buffets is a seafaring tale that will never be told in Florida. Marga has been subliminally developing Swimming With Lesbians since the 1990’s when she worked as a cruise ship entertainer.

Written and Performed by Marga Gomez
Creative Team: Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe (Black To The Future) Jackie Marchand (Power Rangers) Sarah Toby Moore (Atomic Comic) Monica Palacios (San Francisco Mi Amor) and David Schweizer (Latin Standards.)
Photos: Jim McCambridge
Graphic Design: David Hawkins

The show runs 65 minutes with no intermission and is recommended for mature audiences. Full bar will be open for 21 and over.

For Press and Media inquiries contact mamicomedy@gmail.com

“ “If you need to laugh, and laugh hard, and who doesn’t? run don’t walk to Marga Gomez’s new show Swimming with Lesbians. I do believe it’s her best yet, and that’s saying a lot.””
— Lucy Jane Bledsoe author “Tell The Rest”

TICKETS

General Admission - $25 + fees
Preview October 6 - $20 + fees

Early Bird Tix 5 Off with code SNORKLE
*Valid through September 14

ABOUT marga gomez

As the writer/performer of 14 solo plays and a stand-up comedian, Marga Gomez has been described as “deliciously cheeky and incendiary” by The New York Times and “a lesbian Lenny Bruce” by Robin Williams. Her solo plays have been produced nationally, internationally, and Off-Broadway. Accolades include the GLAAD Award for Off-Broadway Theatre, 2022 United States Artists Fellowship for Theater, and the 2021 Center for Cultural Innovation Grant. Gomez is also a multiple winner of the San Francisco Bay Guardian’s “Best Of The Bay Comedian” and the Bay Area Reporter’s Bestie Award for Comedy. Her acting credits include Off-Broadway and national productions of The Vagina Monologues, Off-Broadway production of  Dr.Ride’s American Beach House (Ars Nova) Campo Santo’s Translating Selena ,and A.C.T.’s Fefu and Her Friends, roles in Warner Bros films Sphere and Batman Forever, and a guest role on Netflix’s Sense8. As a Brava Artist-In-Residence 2015 Gomez has created and co-produced comedy events since 2015. She also teaches solo performance online via her website. Website | Instagram

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