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It may be axiomatic by now, especially among feminists, that the "personal is political." But for Emily Levine, the scientifically minded comedian whose new one-woman show, "Emily at the Edge of Chaos," starts performances this week, that idea takes on all kinds of new cosmological dimensions. Directed by Marcia Jean Kurtz, "Emily" adopts medicine and quantum mechanics as models for understanding the social and political shifts that are occurring in our society.
Levine, 64, uses her recent experience suffering from acromegaly, a rare tumor of the pituitary gland mat induces the body to overproduce growth hormone, to diagnose the ills of the country under the Bush administration - a country that she sees as having exceeded its natural limits through expansionist foreign policies, presidential self-aggrandizement and heedless disregard for the environment. Even as her own body is slowly...