Am I forcibly feminized by my sickness? fainting couch: a one woman
show... (with a butler) follows Lady K, an alias for the playwright, a
well-to-do young woman in the late 19th century, struggling to find both
a husband and a cure for her mystery illness. When she is struck by a
debilitating episode of pain and hysteria following her presentation to
society, she is sent to the seaside for her health, accompanied by her
loyal butler. But the cure, the ocean, and the sickness itself, may not
be entirely what they seem...
Based on the lived experiences of a young queer woman coming of age in a
disabled body, "fainting couch" devolves from a predictable portrait of
perfection into an unashamed riot against the notion of the sick woman.
