The brilliant comic performer MARGA GOMEZ will be out next guest artist in the zoom conversation series on SATURDAY APRIL 25 from 3 to 4 EST. To RSVP: mailto:lauriestone@substack.com

Here, Marga is talking with me about the creation of her solo show "Pound." We were speaking in 2015.

"My friend Jackie Marchand, who is a screenwriter, and I were complaining about how there isn’t enough room for lesbians. The whole lesbian bar scene is gone. It used to be a night wasn’t over until a woman threw a glass at the head of her girlfriend. Then you could leave. We felt there wasn’t enough wryness or comedy or power in lesbian characters. I said, ‘I hate that little girl in "The Children’s Hour," let’s kill her with a car’. I began to think about putting the lesbian characters from all these movies I had watched and that got things wrong but I also felt had made me in some sense, I mean “The Killing of Sister George,” and “The Fox,” and “Notes on a Scandal,” putting them into a fantasy zone where they could interact with each other and with me. I have since learned this is called “fan fiction.” The idea was more like when I was a kid I would imagine all the manikins coming alive and getting together after the department store closed."