They're also where the two waves are likely to collide, a notion mined to surprisingly personal, relevant effect in Body Awareness, written by Annie Baker and running at the CoHo under the direction of Gretchen Corbett. Corbett co-stars as Phyllis, a psychology professor charged with organizing "Body Awareness Week" on her university's campus. It sounds much more affirming than "Eating Disorder Week," doesn't it? But Phyllis' notion of what constitutes "body awareness" is narrow, and she's outraged by the strippers and burlesque dancers who flaunt their sexuality onstage—isn't the whole point, she argues, that women not be seen as sex objects?
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It's just that there is a painting in the show that is highly reminiscent of the ones you'd see on "Night Gallery" and it really was pretty cool. The show begins with the murder of some rich industrialist from back East. Soon after the murder is on the TV news, a psychiatrist calls to tell the police that he might know who did it. Danny is on his way to meet the Doctor when the man is killed--killed presumably by the same man who killed the industrialist. And, after killing the Doctor, the killer ransacks the office and steals his file. A short time later, another doctor is diabolically killed with an insecticide.