Charles Busch

Comedy

2m, 3f

Interior

An award winning hit at the Manhattan Theatre Club and on Broadway,The Tale of the Allergist's Wife is a radical departure for the well known author of extravagant spoofs like Vampire Lesbians of Sodom and Psycho Beach Party. Marjorie Taub, the wife of a philanthropic allergist, is engulfed in a life crisis of Medea-like proportions. Her children are grown, her beloved therapist died recently and her mother, obesessed with bowel movements grates on her nerves. She tries to lose herself in a world of art galleries, foreign films and avant guard theatre, but finds she is barely able to rouse herself from her sofa. Her spirits suddenly soar when a fascinating and incredibly worldly friend from her childhood appears on her doorstep. Lee the savior that infuses Marjorie with life becomes Lee the unwelcome and sinister guest in short order.

Winner of the Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Award.

"A window rattling comedy of mid life malaise...Mr. Busch has swum straight into the mainstream...The Allergist's Wife earns its wall to wall laughs." -The New York Times

"Charles Busch comes of age as a comic playwright of the first rank." -The New York Daily News

"An intelligently funny and satirically relevant uptown comedy." -New York Magazine