Waiting Room

by Lisa Loomer

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780822215943
Publisher:	Dramatists Play Service, Incorporated
Publication date:	01/01/1998
Pages:	79
Product dimensions:	5.32(w) x 7.78(h) x 0.26(d)

Editorial Reviews

Lisa Loomer's funny-sad THE WAITING ROOM sounds like a feminist polemic but plays like first-rate comedy and drama...it's now one of the high points of this year's Off-Broadway season...Loomer's writing is never pedantic and always lively...THE WAITING ROOM is well worth a visit.

BackStage

THE WAITING ROOM is also one of the most adventurous productions to open Off-Broadway (or on) so far this season...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