Women on Fire

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When Judith Ivey was preparing to do Precious Sons on Broadway in 1986, she said during an interview that she's helped enormously in a role by knowing what kind of shoes the character wears. But if she thinks she needs the external aids, why is it she's so wonderful playing a dozen parts in Irene O'Garden's Women on Fire? Over the course of the 90 minutes it takes for these dozen gabby ladies to appear, Ivey never changes the black flats she has on, flats that coordinate neatly with an unprepossessing black V-neck sweater and black trousers. Granted, for the last woman she embodies -- a grinningly positive somebody who believes in dancing one's problems away -- Ivey steps out of the plain s[...]