The Waiting Room Lisa Loomer

She is best known for her play the waiting room in which three women from different time periods meet in a modern doctors waiting room each suffering from the effects of their various societies cosmetic body modification practices.

The waiting room lisa loomer. The waiting room is swift light harsh amused and heartbreaking washington post. Lisa loomers funny sad the waiting room sounds like a feminist polemic but plays like first rate comedy and drama loomers writing is never pedantic and always lively the wating room is well worth a visit backstage. Lisa loomer is an american playwright and screenwriter of spanish and romanian ancestry who has also worked as an actress and stand up comic. A chinese woman from the 18th century with toes rotting off due to bound feet a victorian woman who isnt so bothered by her corset as by not wanting her ovaries removed due to hysteria and a modern black woman with breast enhancements and possibly a major diagnosis are all getting treated by a well meaning doctor that is a product of the times and thus are in and out of the waiting room lisa loomer does a wonderful job opening up several different topics for discussion in a way that.

She also co wrote the screenplay for the film girl interrupted. Lisa loomer places a 18th century chinese woman a 19th century british woman and a 20th century american woman all in the same waiting room. 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. 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.

Many of her plays deal with the experiences of latinx and immigrant characters. The chinese woman is there because her feet are rotting off because of binding. Lisa loomer is the author of the waiting room 379 avg rating 107 ratings 13 reviews published 1998 distracted acting edition 364 avg rating 7. She is best known for her play the waiting room in which three women from different time periods meet in a modern doctors waiting room each suffering from the effects of their various societies cosmetic body modification practices foot binding corsetry and breast implantation.

Lisa loomer is an american playwright and screenwriter who has also worked as an actress and stand up comic.