Madwoman in the Volvo

<i>I don't remember exactly when my formerly charming humorous omnipotent mother who would swim a mile out into the ocean to get your beach ball in choppy seas did the great recede. But she was a tide gradually but<br/>irrevocably washing out she retreated she receded she drifted away and there was nothing anybody could do about it.<br/></i><br/>In ancient times tribal women went alone to caves during menopause. Today the 50 million menopausal women in America turn to cheery self-help books. <br/><br/>As for Loh and her female friends they are determined not to go quietly into their sixth decade but instead opt for a desert festival of debauchery and half-nude stoners. <br/><br/>Based on her acclaimed memoir of the same title that Booklist calls hilarious comforting and enlightening+? Loh's play is a hilarious provocative often moving consideration of what it is to be a woman in a society that values and reveres youth.<br/><br/><i>The Mad Woman in the Volvo</i> received its world premiere on 3 January 2016 at South Coast Repertory California.