The Waiting Room Lisa Loomer Summary

Written by lisa loomer.

The waiting room lisa loomer summary. October november 1996. The waiting room for a play that contains an excruciatingly detailed description of chinese foot binding and two characters with cancer the waiting room is awfully cheery. The waiting room provides many laughs and jaw dropping moments throughout the play while still being able to convey key messages to the audience. Three women from different times and cultures meet in a modern doctors waiting room.

379 rating details 107 ratings 13 reviews. Directed by david schweizer. In the waiting room lisa loomers fascinating new play at the mark taper forum three women await medical attention in a sleek modern office where time has been erased. Three women from different centuries meet in a modern doctors waiting room.

Forgiveness from heaven is an eighteenth century chinese woman whose bound feet are causing her to lose her toes. The play begins as three women from different historical periods gather in the waiting room of a doctors office. The waiting room by lisa loomer is a black comedy about corporate health care medical ethics sexual politics and the ideal of womans beauty thru the ages and across cultures. Meet victoria wanda and forgiveness from heaventhree astonishing women of different nationalities time warps and temperaments who come to the waiting room in search of a cure.

Lisa loomers comedy the waiting room a darkly funny look at medical ethics and the dangers encountered on the path to beauty and perfection hits the main stage at brooklyn colleges gershwin theater for ten performances starting february 28 through march 10.