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Brava Theater Presents
A West Coast Premiere
SWIMMING WITH LESBIANS
October 6 - October 22, 2023
Brava Theater proudly presents the West Coast Premiere of Marga Gomez’s fourteenth one person show, Swimming With Lesbians. Gomez’s full steam farce takes place aboard “The Celesbian,” regarded as the most notorious cruise ship on the high seas. Throughout the performance Gomez 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. When Captain Debbie orders Pru to conduct pool games on the Lezzo Deck things veer off course. Pru discovers her old boarding school bully Arlene on board, circling the pool like a shark. How these intrepid Lesbians navigate through danger, lust and endless buffets is a seafaring tale that will never be told in Florida. The performance runs 65 minutes with no intermission and is recommended for mature audiences.
Swimming With Lesbians will be presented October 6 – October 22, 2023, with Friday, Saturday, Sunday performances. Showtimes are 7:30 pm Fridays and Saturdays and 5:00 pm Sundays at Brava Cabaret, 2773 24th St., San Francisco. Tickets are $25. For more information or to order tickets, the public may visit www.Brava.org
THE CREATIVE TEAM and ORIGIN
Marga Gomez has been subliminally developing Swimming With Lesbians since the 1990’s when she worked as a cruise ship entertainer. Inspired by her fondness for The Poseidon Adventure, Sponge Bob (and Lesbians,) Gomez set out to create thrilling lesbian characters for a theater world in which they have rarely been featured. In the Summer of 2023 “Swimming With Lesbians” enjoyed workshop engagements in San Francisco at The Marsh and in New York at Dixon Place. Joining Marga on her quest is a creative team of esteemed story makers: 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.)
Meet “Captain Debbie”