Marga Gomez (left) and Mateo Hurtado (right)
Performance Studies Alum Mateo Hurtado (M.A. '20) interviewed GLAAD award winning performance artist and comedian Marga Gomez for Culturebot about her thirteenth and newest solo show “Spanking Machine”.
Is she on a radar? Is she herself a moving target? The timeless, classic Cubana Rican performance artist stand-up comic Marga Gomez leans into her fears and at large: the pitfalls of friendship and failed perseverance that bog down all of humanity. In Gomez’s thirteenth solo show to date, Spanking Machine, she contends with the grueling layers of trauma, queer identity, chisme, and ghosts of Catholic school yesteryear. But, alas! With her sustained flair for the dramatic fused with a salient satirical savvy, this hybrid virtual-meets-live solo performance unearths more than a few daunting, haunting “memory tricks” set in the 305.
It was recently announced that Marga will perform “Spanking Machine” again on Zoom, this time, produced by Brava theater. Show times can be found below:
Sunday, September 13th at 5pm (PST) - Opening Night
Sunday September 27th at 5pm (PST)
Sunday October 4th at 5pm (PST)
Sunday October 11th at 5pm (PST)