Honed by Gomez and her frequent collaborator, director David Schweizer, in public workshop runs last year, here and in New York, the Marsh world premiere is a lightly satiric feast of hilariously etched characters in an intricate web of love, longing and life. Phillie's photo flashes take us back to a time when Polaroids, open lesbianism and women's studies were the new wave in the Village. In a clever move - or eloquent series of moves - Gomez introduces earnest, anxious, newly emerging lesbian Barbara Ramirez through the eyes and moves of boisterously macho Turkey, coming on hard at a local disco. Before long, Barbara - now called Dahlia - is trying to shed the possessive Turkey and her "hetero-normative" gender notions for the love of her witchy New York University women's studies teacher, Aurora. Best of all is her depiction of Aurora's nemesis, the paternalistic professor Richard Richards - stifling yawns, struggling to keep his eyes open and doggedly maintaining the train of his argument that nobody needs more than 45 minutes of sleep per day.
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