In Gracie Gardner’s gem of a play 'I’m Revolting,' we see patients facing the prospect of skin cancer surgery, and undergoing surgery and experiencing its physical and psychological aftermaths. Read TimTeeman's review:
clinic, some time in December 2019. It isn’t the leading skin cancer clinic, we are told—which immediately tells us something that is already known all too well by the patients we are about to meet. We meet a senior doctor, Denise , and her junior Jonathan , as they prepare for a day of inpatients by briefly scanning their nameless treatment biographies.
Jonathan wordlessly erects a cardboard mannequin sent in by some medical reps—with a smiling figure advertising a new medication. “No surgery needed” is the bright promise this medication offers. For the 90 minutes of Gracie Gardner’s affecting gem of a play, directed by Knud Adams, the advertisement is proven a graphic lie: We see patients facing the prospect of surgery, questioning diagnoses and treatment plans, or undergoing surgery and experiencing its physical and psychological aftermaths.
Marsha Ginsberg’s set is a waiting room, a row of chairs facing the audience, mirrors behind reflecting the audience’s faces. Kate McGee’s lighting is of the appositely utilitarian kind, which darkens as the day goes on.means, its impact, and days like this when everything might change and nothing will, are brought to vivid stage life. Reggie is facing the prospect of a surgery that will affect her face.
Fortunately, although it doesn’t seem so fortunate at the beginning, she has the advocacy of sister Anna (
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