written and performed by Tanya Marquardt
directed by Ilena Lee Cramer
music and arrangement by Joel Stephano, stage production by Jason Leane, dramaturgy by Kris Nelson

Lounge follows a lonely lesbian lounge singer's search for home and true love on her last Canadian tour. Interweaving story and song, she takes her audience from a childhood in small town Canada to singing lounge in Las Vegas and a love affair with a showgirl.

25 July to 12 August, 2006, Mynt Restaurant & Lounge, 555 Davie Street, Vancouver
15 March, 2007, Rime, 1130 Commerical Drive, Vancouver       

produced with chrysalis theatre

"quietly vunerable....it's hypnotizing. Marquardt presents the chanteuse with a combination of pain and girlish cover-up" - Colin Thomas, The Georgia Straight

"Tanya Marquardt. Remember that name. She's going to be a star." - Jo Ledingham, The Vancouver Courier

"This play will seduce you..." - Rob Salerno, Xtra West

"Tanya Marquardt's one woman show about an unnamed singer just stopping in town for a gig has all the hallmarks of a gin-soaked, down-and-out lounge act..." - Michael Harris, The Globe and Mail