The Waiting Room (Play)

The waiting room was a play with a lot of knowledge, all youth and even adults can enjoy this piece of literature. This play shows many different messages especially to women and any person that are becoming based. This is because the media surrounds us with these concepts of women. This causes women to go through all this pain just for beauty which is only outside and many times for vanity which is not worth it. The play was based on three women that each did different things to impress men or their husbands. Now days many women changed themselves just to impress men and feel good about themselves and most men are attracted to the outside beauty and they begin to care less about inner beauty. They also do not notice the negative effects the beauty treatments have on a woman’s health.
The author Lisa Loomer, makes really good commentaries in this play. She brings out all the truth of today’s society and she realizes what we live in. Woman lets their health minor even though they have the knowledge and they know what could or might happen to them. In the play one of the characters was in the caused of having cancer because she put breast implants but, she was so happy with being able to have what she had.The author its showing how they had so many focused into them and sometimes a lot a vanity is what causes this. The only woman in the play that had many realized about this was the nurse Brenda she knew how all this woman was going through. Because this woman’s in the waiting room weren't considering their health and gave more interest to their beauty. Like the woman Victoria had a corset that was very tight that caused her organs to move around and end up with hysteria. Also the woman Forgiveness from Heaven had to have small feet, for her to be consider beauty, her feet bound which was very unhealthy for her because it caused her pain. Then the doctors gave the least care about it because it was the woman’s choice. The nurse was strong enough and faces the reality with the doctor how the industry of cancer is growing more and they don’t do something about it and Brenda realizes this.

The three main women characters during in the play were Victoria, Forgiveness from Heaven, and Wanda. They were all in the waiting room for the reason of doing something for their outside beauty they were trying to make themselves more beautiful. Victoria has the problem of having a tight corset, Forgiveness was loosing her toes because she had her feet bound, and Wanda had breast implants done and later on finds out that she has breast cancer and then had many surgeries done. They all go through problems and come out with different results. Victoria is very much controlled and was a Housewife
her husbands thoughts on her sickness because he was a doctor too. She had not much freedom and was a rebel. Her husband gave interest to her issue and told her it would only make her hysteria worse. In my perspective Victoria gave a lo of less care and more care in getting more beauty. She ends up getting her ovaries removed and in the end abides by her husbands rules. Any way the next woman Forgiveness loves her husband even though he is dominant and she seems to be afraid of him and be less than him and gives a lot of respect and her husband has five other wives. She only has her feet bound because her husband gets pleasure from the smell and her feet have to be small for husband could consider them beauty. For her husband her pain isn't worth it because and when she not with him is because she has to give him opportunity with his other five women. Wanda is a single woman within the play she is a strong woman who is all about her outside appearance and beauty. She is all for impressing the men especially with her breast implants she got. Until one day she is diagnosed with breast cancer. That’s when she realizes the good things in life other than impressions and her outside beauty and starts to become what she really is and what really beauty is all about.

The other characters in the play were Ken and Larry and they were pretty unique in their own way in the play. They're both people in the cancer treatment business because Larry had a method of treating cancer, and Ken works for the FDA. The commentary that the author was trying to make was how the portraying was really goes in the business. Ken was trying to show that even though there are more effective treatments out there people are too greedy to let them be passed because they want their own to pass. Larry wanted his method to be tried out, however there is another treatment that is probably more effective but he is being greedy. He is one of the people that decide whose treatments get.

The ending was funny and enjoyable and we learn a lot after this. Each one of us had a different perspective on this play, and what we taught about each character. I like how all women on the play realized the real beauty towards the ending and what real beauty is. I hope there’s a continuation on the play because we don’t know what happens.