In Front of Your Eyes 2024
Performance Festival Presents:
Marga Gomez’s
Spanish Stew
at The Marsh San Francisco Mainstage
Written & Performed by Marga Gomez
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Friday, August 2 at 7:30pm
Opener: Janet Thornburg
Sunday, August 4 at 4:00pm
Opener: Karen Ripley
Saturday, August 10 at 5:30pm
Opener: Betsy Murphy
About the Festival
In Front of Your Eyes Performance Festival will feature developing works from women and nonbinary performers and playwrights. The festival will take place in both San Francisco and Berkeley. San Francisco will feature solo shows, and Berkeley will feature ensemble shows.
About the Show
Spanish Stew recounts the frisky adventures of Marga Gomez at age 20 in 1976 when San Francisco was a blast even for a broke, jilted 20 year old New York transplant, on her own, who refused to go hungry. Join young Marga in 1976 as she chows down in Noe Valley for $4 a day at a restaurant run by a body-worker cult that enforced Silent Eating. Marga’s Spanish Stew like any delicious stew, is a little of this and a little of that including: young Marga’s odd jobs, odd roommates and constant craving for the Carribean cuisine of her estranged Latiné parents. A Work-In-Progress.
Ticket Information
Tickets: $15 – $35 General Seating sliding scale | $50 & $100 Reserved Seating
Online ticket sales close 2 hours before each performance,
and additional tickets may be available for purchase at the door.
No Intermission | Ages 16+
Please do not bring infants to the show
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About the Artist
Marga Gomez (Playwright & Performer) is the author and performer of 14 solo plays. She got started as a solo performer at The Marsh in 1991. Since then her shows have been produced nationally, internationally, and in New York at The Public Theater, 47th Street Theatre, Performance Space 122, Dixon Place, and La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club. Her acting credits include Off-Broadway and national productions of The Vagina Monologues, A.C.T.’s Fefu and Her Friends, Ars Nova’s Dr. Ride’s American Beach House and roles in Warner Bros. films Sphere and Batman Forever as well as a guest role on Netflix’s Sense8. Her awards include a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding New York Theater, a 2023 San Francisco Artist Commission Grant, a 2022 United States Artists Fellowship for Theatre and Performance, a 2021 Center for Cultural Innovation Grant, a Los Angeles Stage Alliance Ovation Award for Best Featured Actress, and the 2010 Bay Area Critics Circle Award for Best Performance. Gomez is a winner of the 2023 Best Comedian Award from both 48 Hills and Bay Area Reporter. Gomez was born and raised in Washington Heights to a Cuban comedian father and a Puerto-Rican Dancer/Actress mother. Follow Marga on instagram @themargagomez
Openers
August 2 – Janet Thornburg’s The Bequest
If a dear old friend passes away and leaves you $2,000, do you have to use it in the way she suggested in the note that comes with the check? Or can you use it to pay for the dental veneers you’ve been longing for? After all, you’re still here, and she’s gone. Or is she?
August 4 – Karen Ripley’s Online Funeral
Trudy is dying and heads towards the light. Oh great she misses the light!! Where will she end up?
August 10 – Betsy Murphy’s Do You Need a Bag?
Do You Need A Bag is a poignant story of grief, grace, and glimmers of the afterlife when a mother sets out to collect her 27-year-old son’s ashes after his death from a fentanyl-laced drug. In 2022, over 200 people a day in the U.S. died from fentanyl. One was Betsy Murphy’s son, Charlie.