I Got Sick Then I Got Better
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Sep 14, 2009
Closed Nov 15, 2009
Opened Sep 14, 2009
Closed Nov 15, 2009
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Running Time:
1hr. 20min.
1hr. 20min.
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I Got Sick Then I Got Better is a wrenching comic riff on one woman's adventures after falling down the medical rabbit hole. Diagnosed with and treated for ovarian cancer in 2005, writer and performer Jenny Allen (The New Yorker, The New York Times) tells her story of the harrowing tailspin she took following her diagnosis, combining biting humor with searing emotion in a witty, bittersweet monologue that limns the personal and family collateral damage a life-threatening illness brings.
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Ovarian cancer isn't a subject you normally laugh about, but you'd be hard-pressed not to do so as Jenny Allen hilariously relates her experience with the disease in her excellent solo show, I Got Sick Then I Got Better, which is being presented by New York Theatre Workshop at the 4th Street Theatre.
It's not that Allen takes her illness lightly -- far from it. Rather, she has the uncanny ability to talk about her experience with a warmth and congeniality that is completely disarming. This begins even before the show officially commences, as Allen greets audience members and chats with them informally. Even when she gets onstage, her opening speech sounds off-the-cuff, and the house lights[...]