The Waiting Room(edited version)

What I think the key message in this play is to be happy with how you look. If you aren't happy with who you are then it leads you to harm your body with different ways to some how "Beautify" your body in which all you need is to be happy about how you look and don't harm your body for with comes a harmful price.

Some comments that Lisa Loomer talks about in the play is how people go through so much trouble just to get there body to look like some super model. People go through so much financial trouble to enhance they're body to make them more appealing to the other sex. Take for example a character in the play Brenda, a typical New Yorker who has so many fake body parts she doesn't know what is real. She has entered the waiting room to find out that she might have cancer. Brenda is a good example of how people go to the doctors office to see if its possible to get another implant. Which also touches on how people don't care about they're health when they get something fake in they're body.

In the play they're three characters one is a female lady named Victoria from the Victorian era and has problems with her ovaries and doesn't know either to get them taken out or not. Her husband made her think that she needed painful surgery to take out her ovaries but ends up getting a mild case of hysteria which ends up increasing and find out that they're is another way to get her ovaries removed without painful surgery. In other words Forgiveness from heaven is a eighteenth century Chinese woman who has entered the waiting room due to foot binding. Forgiveness' big and small toe have fallen off and is wanting to put them back in order to be beautiful to her husband of many wifes. Forgiveness's husband only wants Forgiveness because of her feet and he love the sexuality that he gets out of it. On another hand, Brenda is in the waiting room to find out what would happen if she gets on a plane with her implants instead she finds out that she has a possible chance of having cancer. All three of these women have three very difficult situations and starts thinking of what they’re husbands want. They end up doing what they thought was going to be the safest way to cure there problem.

In the play they're two meds that have two different ways to try and cure cancer. Larry was the guy who didn't care about the people’s health and wanted people with cancer to try the Carsons Serum. You can call Larry one of those peoples who just want to trick you out of your money and get famous by doing it. Ken on the other hand wants to try to cure cancer by this prescription medicine called INT-2. Ken and Larry have a confrontation about the serum that Larry wants people to start taking to see if it has any affects. Larry soon comes to find that he has cancer and is struggling to chose if he wants to take a risk and go for the Carson Serum or another treatment that he has heard of. The thing is Larry is Brenda's doctor and soon Larry finds out that she has cancer and offers her a treatment that is free and he doesn't take that offer and offers it to someone else.

According to me, Lisa Loomer did end the play how she did to get you wondering if one of the characters survive or however you want to put it. Lisa Loomer does get the message that she is trying to get out to the people who are reading this play and it really makes you wonder exactually how many people do this and it turns out to be a very high number.