The Village Voice, February 18th, 2004
A cerebral version of The Women, with a guest list from hell THE LADIES By Anne Washburn Dixon Place at Chashama 111 West 42nd Street 212.219.0736 FEMALE TROUBLE Anyone reading the dramatis personae of Anne Washburn's The Ladies might expect a bitchiest of the highest historical pedigree: Imelda Marcos, Eva Peron, Jiang Qing (a/k/a Madame Mao), and Elena Ceausescu convene in an undefined afterworld to hash out the lurid details of each other's lives. Camp would seem to be a given in such a scenario, but Washburn has concocted something far more ambitious and cerebral. Part experimental essay...
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