The Women

January 27 - February 22, 2004

Camp, Vamp, Bitch and Kitsch
By Clare Boothe Luce
Directed by Rod A. Lansberry

Set in Manhattan in the ’30s, this cunning comedy is all aboutwomen with gossip, glamour, gold-digging and a gaggle ofsales girls and socialites with too much time on their hands.It is the quintessential theatrical cat fight, and these femalesare cats - cute and cuddly, yet capable of scratching eachother’s eyes out. Sweet Mary Haines loses her husband toruthless Crystal Allen, who is aided and abetted by poisonous Sylvia Fowler, whose own spouse has taken up with anotherwoman. It opened on Broadway in the 1935 and in 1939 anow-classic film debuted starring Norma Shearer, Joan Crawfordand Rosalind Russell. The Women is the mother of campand one of the most blistering and witty comedies of all time.