Different times and different cultures collide with each other in Lisa Loomer’s dark comedy.
Three women meet in a waiting room, each from a different time and culture and suffering from the effects of their culture’s beauty practices. Victoria, from Victorian England, is about to have her ovaries removed to treat her “hysteria�. Forgiveness From Heaven, an 18th-century Chinese woman, has rotting feet from the feet binding practiced in her culture. Wanda, a modern woman from New Jersey, has advanced breast cancer that wasn’t caught sooner because of her large implants. Douglas, a hapless surgeon, is caught in the middle, torn between his obligations to his patients and his hospital. An ensemble feminist play, The Waiting Room takes a no-holds-barred look at the price women pay for beauty.
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