The L Word
If the tight-lipped Brit who criticized Margaret Cho for not providing enough lesbian representation were here in town, we could send her right on over to
Marga Gomez’ Pound. Named for
Bound, the Wachowski siblings broad-on-broad Mob gambol, Gomez’s one-woman show gets down to business when a gynecologist identifies her as having a severe case of “unplanned celibacy.” Like Cho, Gomez finds herself adrift in a quagmire of online dating apps. Unlike Cho, she goes deeper than duct taping someone to a wall. In fact, she goes all the way — past a random hookup in the women’s room, through an interdimensional vaginal portal that leads to a nether world inhabited by lesbian movie characters. In rewriting the history of lesbians portrayals in cinema — from Sandy Dennis’ role in 1967’s The Fox to Gina Gershon’s role in Showgirls — Gomez unravels her own history and provides commentary on both. It might help if you have a some basic familiarity with the catalog (
The Children’s Hour, Basic Instinct, The Killing of Sister George) but it’s not required. Gomez will provide Cliff Notes and lot of laughs.
— Silke Tudor
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