Madame Shaw, famous actress, is known to be the wisest woman in Europe...to paraphrase T. S. Eliot's poem. Shaw brings her tensile talents to a solo rendition of The Waste Land. First published in 1922, The Waste Land remains a startlingly modern work; staging it as performance, by Deborah Warner, who has made her mark directing the classics ("O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag - "), is a brilliant turn. Critic Lisa Nesselson wrote in Variety, "Shaw is boundlessly expressive as she sings, declaims, whispers, affects a congested voice, toys with variations in class and regional dialects and seduces the camera....(A) versatile, utterly unstuffy (performance)."