The Waiting Room

The message from Lisa Loomer’s The Waiting Room was not about the most perfect women, but most stereotypical to their time period. If this was her intent she did a wonderful job.

In the beginning of the play the characters seem more stereotypical, but then as their sicknesses progress so does their attitude to more of an accepting mood. An example for Victoria is when she goes to see Douglas and he thinks she’s in a good mood. She’s more conservative but even this doesn’t mean she’s calm and put together, but I believe towards the end the play she fully does become calm and accepting. Wanda in the beginning is a little mean to everyone, but at the same time has a low self esteem. She learns to accept the fact that she has cancer, tries the new treatment and starts accepting herself all around. She has breast cancer which was greatly supported by her breast implants. Forgiveness is happy go lucky, but has issues with his husband, she is dependant on a man who has five wives. She can't do anything because this is acceptable to her Asian culture. You could tell she tired to cover it up and not care. She then admits to that what her husband is doing is wrong and is able to cope.

As for her choice of using the medical industry, this I don’t understand, I don’t understand what she was trying to prove, or just thought it’d be funny. Using this does make Victoria is from the Victorian era and very well reserved. She seems like she has more of a perfect generic relationship since her husband who is a doctor. Ken and Larry were the example of the medical industry or the main focus of trying to portray that anyways. When they tried to shut down the clinic in Jamaica and the succeeded, I guess this was the “reality” of the medical industry?

With the comedic tone to this play Loomer uses, it seems as if she is almost making fun of modern day society. This I admire. Wanda would be the closest example to modern day society, I say closest, because since she’s using stereotypes it’s not “real.”

The final product of her play was very blunt, the message was clear, and easy to comprehend. You didn't have to look too far or too deep to get this full extent of the play, which isn't a bad thing.