THE STORY: A dark comedy about the timeless quest for beauty - and its cost. Three women from different centuries meet in a modern doctor's waiting room. Forgiveness From Heaven is an eighteenth-century Chinese woman whose bound feet are causing her to lose her toes. Victoria is a nineteenth-century tightly corsetted English woman suffering from what is commonly known as "hysteria." Then there is Wanda, a modern gal from New Jersey who is having problems with her silicone breasts. Husbands, doctors, Freud, the drug industry and the FDA all come under examination. The play is a wild ride through medical and sexual politics, including the politics of the ever-present battle with breast cancer.
"THE WAITING ROOM
is a bold, risky melange of conflicting elements that is
terrifically moving
there's no resisting the fierce emotional pull of the play." - NY Times. "Adventurous
THE WAITING ROOM invigorates as it astonishes. How did Ms. Loomer
ever come up with a piece that's so crazy, so brutal, so logical and so satisfying? For that matter, when was the last time any play moved you enough to ask that question?" - NY Times. "Lisa Loomer's funny-sad THE WAITING ROOM sounds like a feminist polemic but plays like first-rate comedy and drama
Loomer's writing is never pedantic and always lively
THE WATING ROOM is well worth a visit." - BackStage. "THE WAITING ROOM is swift, light, harsh, amused and heartbreaking." - Washington Post. "Fascinating
A smart and disturbing comedy. THE WAITING ROOM glows." - LA Times.
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Dramatists Play Service Inc. |
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Softcover |
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9780822215943 |
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