Ladies at a Gay Girls’ Bar, 1938-1969

Theater

Name of Company: Maggie Cee

Description: Solo performance from Femme Show creator Maggie Cee about queer history and fem identity. Ladies at a Gay Girls’ Bar, 1938-1969 features a character based in Maggie’s teenage experience as a youth activist in the late 1990s-early 2000, who guides the audience through fictional, history-based monologues that illuminate the feminine women whose stories are too often forgotten, but whose strength and determination made the gay girls’ bars come alive.

Cast: Maggie Cee

Show Dates + Times: September 18, 3 & 6 PM

Location/Venue: Tattooed Mom, 530 South St, Philadelphia

Length of Show in Minutes: 60

Capacity: 50

Description of Venue: It's a bar!

Accessibility: Tattooed Mom is only partially accessible, with one step required to enter the building, and a flight of stairs leading to the upstairs event space. Once upstairs, to get to the event space there are three small steps down into a middle room, and three small steps up into the upstairs back room where events are held.

Additional Details: 21+ only

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Bio: This is a unique queer fem solo show and it's only in town for 2 shows! The Hartford Courant called it ""major highlight"" of the Hartford Fringe Festival: “Ladies at a Gay Girl’s Bar: 1938-1969...sweetly explored the femme/butch dichotomy in lesbian bars over half a century ago. Cee is a graceful, down-to-earth performer who’s passionate about her subject...and tells it through dance, pre-recorded voices, oral histories, fictional characters and well-chosen music.

Maggie Cee is the founder of The Femme Show, a variety show exploring queer femininity that has been seen in Boston and throughout the northeast since 2007. Philadelphia performances include the Rotunda, the Trocadero, Studio 34 and Giovanni's Room.