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Written by Charles Bush

Directed by Nicholas Sugar

starring
Ashley Crocket • Susan d’ Autremont • Sue Leiser • Mark David Nelson • Michael Skillern.

An award–winning hit on Broadway, The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife is a radical departure for the well–known author of extravagant spoofs like Vampire Lesbians of Sodom and Psycho Beach Party. Marjorie Taub, the wife of a philanthropic allergist, is engulfed in a life crisis of Medea–like proportions. Her children are grown, her beloved therapist died recently and her bowel–obsessed mother incessantly needles her. She tries to lose herself in a world of art galleries, foreign films and avant–guard theatre, but finds she is barely able to rouse herself from her sofa. Her spirits suddenly soar when a fascinating and incredibly worldly friend from her childhood appears on her door step.

Winner of the Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Award and nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play. “A window–rattling comedy of mid–life malais... Mr. Busch has swum straight into the mainstream…. The Allergist’s Wife earns its wall–to–wall laughs.” – N. Y. Times. “An intelligently funny and satirically relevant uptown comedy.” – N.Y. Magazine.

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