Posts Tagged ‘Elizabeth Bruce’
Hip Shot: ‘Bag Lady’
Bag Lady
The Bedroom at Fort Fringe
Remaining performances: July 17 6:00, 23 9:00, 26 noon
They say: “Meet Clara, Russian Empress, Survivor, The Virgin Queen. She’s the Empress of New York with a bench, a doll, a realm to rule. Travel light. Only Essentials.”
Joan says: Ranting and rambling raised to an art form.
Playwright Jean Claude van Itallie premiered this one-woman show 30 years ago in New York City. I used to spend a lot of time in New York during that period. The protocol for passing a bag lady was eyes averted. Now all these years later I have been shown the bag lady in all her madness and glory and I know why I was afraid.
