American Drama, Peoples & Cultures - Drama, Family/Domestic Drama
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Overview
Three Jewish middle-aged sisters, originally from Brooklyn, come together in Queen Anne's Gate, London, to celebrate the fifty-fourth birthday of Sara, the eldest, now a brilliant British banker. Divorced, a single mother, Sara no longer sees the necessity for romance. Gorgeous, suburban housewife and mother, is also a talk-show personality. And Pfeni, journalist and travel writer, still hasn't written her serious book on the women of Tajikistan. Pfeni's boyfriend, Geoffrey, director of the hit musical The Scarlet Pimpernel, brings to Sara's house Mervyn, a faux furrier, "the world leader in synthetic animal protective covering." Sara meets Merv and finds that even at fifty-four there are possibilities. An exuberant, heart-warming, contemporary comedy by one of America's best playwrights.Synopsis
Wasserstein, who won a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award for The Heidi Chronicles, writes of three Jewish middle-aged sisters-Sara, Gorgeous, and Pfeni-who come together in London to celebrate Sara’s birthday. Winner of the Outer Critics Circle Award. Photographs.
NY Post
This is a simply lovely, funny play, and such family values benefit from small revelations.
Editorials
New Yorker
The laughter is all but continuous.NY Post
This is a simply lovely, funny play, and such family values benefit from small revelations.NY Times
Funny. Observant. A play with wit as well as acumen...In dealing with social and cultural paradoxes, Ms. Wasserstein is, as always, the most astute of commentators.Book Details
Published
October 1, 1997
Publisher
Dramatists Play Service, Incorporated
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780822213482