“The Oppostie of Sad is not Happy. It’s DELICIOUS.”
Maggie, a forty year-old woman, is looking for perfection.
Not in herself, but in her mate!
After a car accident leaves her partially paralyzed, she decides that it’s time to get what she has always wanted, what she has always denied herself— A physically beautiful man.
In ambitious America, where all dreams are possible, Maggie turns to
Jewdate…Match.net…Rawnerve.com…
But these sites yield only depressed aristocrats and fork fetishists. In short, flawed men who whyme. (why me, why-me, whyyyyyyyyyme).
Maggie, for her part, no longer tolerates self-pity.
Hasn’t she spent enough time crying over her disfigurement?
And what about being molested as a child? Disappointed by every love she’s ever known? What about 2,500 years of Jewish persecution, including her own parents, who were victims of the Nazis?
Will Maggie learn to accept her history, or will she find a man who can finally bring her to victory?...
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August 15, 2004 (Reading)
Summer Sizzles Festival (MuseFire Productions)
Washington, DC
June 17, 2005 (Production)
Hooker-Dunham Theater and Gallery
Brattleboro, VT
July, 2005
Sweet Mango Cafe
Washington, DC
July, 2006
Capital Fringe Festival
Washington, DC
March 12, 2007
National Theatre
Washington, DC
Written and Performed by Laura Zam
Directed by Michelle Hall
60 minutes.
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