The Waiting Room by Lisa Loomer

The Waiting Room is a dark comedy about the timeless quest for beauty – and it’s 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.

Under the direction of Nora Hussey, professional actors from the Wellesley Repertory Theatre, Danny Bolton*, Woody Gaul* and John Kinsherf* join Wellesley College students, bringing the play vividly to life.