Last night, I had the pleasure of seeing the well-paced production of Extremities on the first night of its final run at Silver Meteor. The play has three performances left — at 8 p.m. tonight and tomorrow, and 3 p.m. Sunday.
My first brush with the drama by William Mastrosimone was the Farrah Fawcett movie adaptation, way back when I was a teenager. I remember it being a big deal in showbiz news — the complex role of a woman who turns the tables on a would-be rapist. Talk about turning the tables. Farrah showed us. There was no pigeonholing that babe.
This article appears in Nov 4-10, 2010.