Written and Performed by
Marga Gomez
Photo by
Kent Taylor
80 minutes
no intermission
All seating for this performance is first-come, first-served.
This show is 17+.
Please do not bring infants to the show.
All shows are in The Marsh San Francisco Studio - Upstairs.
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 "Hilarious...Gomez at the top of her game."
–Rob Hurwitt San Francisco Chronicle
"Gomez has the audience in hysterics"
–Doug Konecky SF Theater Blog
"An enchanting stroll/lurch down a memory lane”
–Richard Dodds, Bay Area Reporter
“Funny…engaging…wickedly self-effacing”
–Jean Schiffman, SF Examiner
“Gomez is ageless…a dynamic performer and a funny and talented writer”
–Chad Jones, Theater Dogs
“Perennially irreverent, insouciant, and appealingly immature”
–San Francisco Bay Guardian
"Enthralling...thrilling...laugh-out-loud funny"
–Sam Hurwitt, The Idiolect
“Spot-on comic timing...not-to-be missed”
–SF Bay Times
NEW! Watch Marga's Not Getting
Any Younger Trailer
By popular demand and critical acclaim Marga Gomez’s Not Getting Any Younger will be extended starting Friday, January 6 through Saturday, February 25, 2012. Gomez spills the beans in her 9th solo show—a comedy about lies, vanity and the good old days. This ‘coming of middle age’ story begins during an idyllic childhood visit to a dairy cow’s boudoir in the Bronx. Afterwards, Gomez endures a youth marked by adult hostility and is forced to live by the maxim “children should be seen and not heard.” She perseveres through these soul crushing early years with the false hope that when she’s older she can order children about.
But in 2011, children call the shots, adults shoot botox and Gomez has to put up with young salesclerks calling her Ma’am, driving her toward murder at a Forever 21 department store. Lauded for her honesty as an out gay comedian before it was safe to be one, Gomez has actually been a master of deception in other ways. Now the cagey monologist unburdens herself and brings her riskiest revelation to the stage because…she is “Not Getting Any Younger”. Originally directed by Ellen Sebastian Chang, Not Getting Any Younger was workshopped at The Marsh in April and July of 2011. The play has also been presented Off-Off Broadway at Dixon Place and at The Bronx Academy of Art and Dance.
Gomez’s debut solo piece Memory Tricks premiered at the Marsh in 1991 and she is thrilled to return 20 years later. Not Getting Any Younger was presented this March at The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance.
Writer/Performer Marga Gomez is the recipient of the 2010 Bay Area Critics Circle Awards as well as a nominee for New York’s Drama Desk. She is a triple winner of the SF Bay Guardians “Best Comedian” Reader’s Choice Award, 2011’s Best Comedian Award from The Bay Area Reporter and of the GLAAD Media Award for Off-Broadway Theater, Theater LA’s Ovation Award for “Best Featured Actress,” and New York’s Hola Award for “Best Solo Performance.” Marga Gomez is the author/performer of eight more solo plays; Long Island Iced Latina, Los Big Names, A Line Around The Block, Memory Tricks, Marga Gomez is Pretty, Witty & Gay, Jaywalker, The Twelve Days of Cochina, and Proud and Bothered, which, along with her collaboration with Carmelita Tropicana on an erotic horror comedy Single Wet Female, have been produced nationally, internationally and in New York at The Public Theater, The 47th Street Theater, Performance Space 122, Dixon Place and La Mama. For more about Marga visit www.margagomez.com.
Marga’s acting credits include roles in the Off Broadway and national companies of The Vagina Monologues working alongside Rita Moreno, Vicki Lawrence, Lisa Ling and Jo Beth Williams.
Selections from Gomez’s work have been published in several anthologies including Extreme Exposure (TCG Books), HOWL (Crown Press), Out Loud & Laughing (Anchor Books), Contemporary Plays by American Women of Color (Routledge) When I Knew (Harper-Collins) and Out of Character (Bantam Books.) |
