Entertainment Weekly
November 5, 1999
Now Hear This! Written by and starring Kathy Buckley, directed
by Sue Wolf, set by Scott Chambliss, lighting by Michael Lincoln,
costumes by Brian DeLapp. Lamb’s Theatre, 130 W. 44th
Street, Manhattan.
Now Hear This! Hearing impaired but mistakenly labeled as
mentally retarded when she was 7, Kathy Buckley battled through
more setbacks by age 30 than most of us face in a lifetime:
She was sexually abused, crushed by a Jeep, and diagnosed
with cervical cancer. And while this isn’t typical fodder
for laughs, the striking, six-foot comedian manages to pull
it off in her autobiographical one-woman show. With her snarky,
ironic delivery, Buckley cuts through most of the sentimentality
with giggly bits about pronouncing “fever” as
“beaver” and the joys of hearing herself pee for
the first time.
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