WISHFUL DRINKING at Roundabout Theatre's Studio 54

(Seen 10/7/09)

Another Hollywood celebrity has come to Broadway, stripped emotionally naked and vulnerable, but always aware that she must entertain us while shocking us with her inner personal revelations.

Carrie Fisher has written, and stars in, a solo performance piece, which seems to act as a catharsis, after her many years of drowning herself in the dark side of the so-called Hollywood scene.

With the help of all kinds of visual aids, and director Tony Taccone, she reveals everything we never really wanted to know, and probably knew anyway, about her drug use, her famous parents, her breakdowns. She recounts her descent into a personal hell from which she has mostly pulled herself out.

It is a tour-de-force performance for her, and an enjoyable and illuminating evening in the theatre. She does not disappoint us.