Publisher's Synopsis
"I've been single for so long, I've started having sexual fantasies
about my vibrator," riffs Karla for her captive, cancer-ward audience.
The patients-her mother, who's recovering from surgery for ovarian
cancer, and her roommate behind the curtain, aren't laughing-or even
awake-but there's someone else in the room . . .
In Halley Feiffer's "
painfully irresistible" (The New York Times) new play, a foul-mouthed
twenty-something comedian and a middle-aged man embroiled in a nasty
divorce are brought together unexpectedly when their cancer-stricken
mothers become roommates in the hospital. Together, this unlikely duo
must negotiate some of life's biggest challenges . . . while making
some of the world's most inappropriate jokes. Can these two very lost
people learn to laugh through their pain and lean on each other when all
they really want to do is run away?
In A
Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center of New York City, Halley Feiffer
slays in a work that's dark and disturbing and yet totally hilarious.
The acclaimed world premiere at MCC Theater featured Beth Behrs, Erik
Lochtefeld, Lisa Emery, and Jacqueline Sydney, and was directed by Trip
Cullman.
