bag lady

"People called us the bag lady because I used to carry all my bags everywhere."

Anne Meara was the talk of the town in the role of a bag lady who spurned the self-congratulatory charity of guilty swells.

Ms. Komar said: “That she was seen as some kind of bag lady, that her art gets overshadowed by those stories, makes us angry.”

The play is filled with outlandish characters — most conspicuously, Trudy, the bag lady, who has lost her mind and in the process has made contact with space aliens curious about higher consciousness on Earth.

A bag lady wearing a complicated mask dug into her luggage and produced filthy masks to offer those who had joyfully unmasked themselves.