The Marsh - Marga Gomez's new work-in-progress LONG ISLAND ICED LATINA and Samantha Chanse performs an excerpt from LYDIA’S FUNERAL VIDEO

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Written and Performed by Marga Gomez Marga Gomez's LONG ISLAND ICED LATINA and Samantha Chanse in LYDIA'S FUNERAL VIDEO May 28, 29, 31		Marga Gomez's new work-in-progress LONG ISLAND ICED LATINA and Samantha Chanse performs an excerpt from LYDIA’S FUNERAL VIDEO May 28, 29 & 31st, 2008 wednesday & thursday at 8pm, saturday at 5 & 8pm "Hysterical! Feisty! Adore her!" Eve Ensler- ’Vagina Monologues’ "Amazing..a Lesbian Lenny Bruce" Robin Williams "A Latina Lily Tomlin" Herbert Siguenza-Culture Clash "A Lesbian Larry The Cable Guy." Barry Walters - Village Voice "One to watch ...a jolt of theatrical electricity." New York Times "Hilarious" LA Times "Gomez beguiles" Time Out NY
Studio theater upstairs 80 minutes one intermission All seating for this performance is first-come, first-served. This show is 17 and over. Please do not bring infants to the show.		“Long Island Iced Latina” – Drama Desk nominee and GLAAD Award Winning solo performer Marga Gomez’s work in progress is an intoxicating comedic memoir of her awkward adolescence in Massapequa, Long Island. Gomez mixes equal parts cultural confusion, chronic virginity, mother-daughter instability and a splash of polyester fashion to paint a sardonic picture of her uprooted life as the new brown girl in a white high school. “Long Island Iced Latina” is being developed for a June 9th presentation in New York at Joe’s Pub.
		Samantha Chanse performs an excerpt from LYDIA’S FUNERAL VIDEO “Combining bits of video, impromptu stand-up, and panicky introspection, Lydia's Funeral Video follows the plight of a young woman and her sass-talking embryo as they negotiate the politics of a newly invoked 28-day abortion countdown. Spiked with surreal celebrity trash-culture references, sardonic moral relativity, and Chanse's biting wit, LFV celebrates irreverent political incorrectness and the societal gray areas in all of us.” Connie Hwong, Flavorpill “Lydia’s Funeral Video” (20 minute excerpt)- Asian American Theater and Bindlestiff alumni Samantha Chanse depicts a not so distant future when abortions are legal only within twenty-eight days of conception. Apocalypse-obsessed Lydia Clark-Lin is doggedly pursuing a career in monetary units when a mysterious being claiming to be an hours-old embryo invades her dreams, announces that Lydia is both pregnant and dying, and commands her to create a video to be screened at her funeral before terminating the pregnancy. Lydia seems to be losing her job and her mind, a deadline fast approaches, the end of the world beckons, and hecklers loom on the San Francisco horizon. A sold-out full production of “Lydia’s Funeral Video” premiered at the Dark Room theater and was directed by Wilma Bonet. This piece is performed live.