PUBLIC EVENTS
Queer Conscience:
Proud & Bothered
Marga Gomez
Wednesday, May 5 8pm
$10
"Wickedly sharp comic timing... deviously provocative" Rob Hurwitt, San Francisco Chronicle
"Top five performances in Gay Theater" Ada Calhoun, New York Magazine
A professional Gay Pride emcee takes the walk of shame through sexual backstreets in this GLAAD award winning comedy tell all. Marga Gomez ("Best comedian 2009"- readers's choice SF Bay Guardian) shares her improper encounters with a sociapathic New Jersey Housewife, a public access television personality, and a seductive but fragile statue. Based on actual misguided events during one very long Pride month.
"Proud and Bothered" premiered in New York at La Mama Theater under its original title "Marga Gomez's Intimate Details" and was directed by David Schweizer. It was the winner of the 2004 GLAAD Media Award for Off Broadway Theater. This is workshop performance before the show re-opens in San Francisco on May 13th for a six week run at New Conservatory Theater Center.
To learn more about Marga visit www.margagomez.com
To view an excerpt visit Marga's YouTube channel.
ABOUT QUEER CONSCIENCE
After serving as the Festival Director for the 2009 HOT! Festival, a six week, multi-site festival of queer performance and culture, Earl Dax presents Queer Conscience. Part of the "New Voices in Performance" series at the Center for Performance Research (CPR) in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Queer Conscience includes performance, discussions, screenings and other special events that feature artists, activists, and academics whose experiments in queer identity serve as springboards to broader social consciousness. Rejecting the recent commodification of LGBT lifestyles, Queer Conscience looks back to early lesbian and gay activists whose political analysis identified linked sources of oppression, even as it seeks to showcase contemporary cultural productions, activism, and academic writing that offer the promise of queering the future. Indeed, the utopian vision of Queer Conscience rests on creative forms of resistance to oppression and hegemony -- forms of resistance that take hold in the imagination and are made concrete in our art, theory, and activism. But rather than seeking a narrow definition, Queer Conscience presents itself as a question, a provocation, a catalyst for dialogue, reflection, analysis, strategizing and action around a host of issues that are of vital importance, not only to LGBT and Queer communities, but to society at large. By queering conventional notions of "conscience" based in religious dogma, patriarchy, and heteronormativity, Queer Conscience anticipates, suggests and seeks to instigate a utopian future.
The New Voices in Live Performance Series is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; The Mertz Gilmore Foundation; and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.
