The sisters Rosensweig are three extraordinary Brooklyn-born Jewish women. Sara is the managing director of the European branch of an international bank, and she lives ostensibly happy, man-free-life in London with her intelligent daughter, Tess. Pfeni is an eccentric travel writer who pursues an unsatisfactory relationship with Geoffrey, a bisexual theatre director. And Gorgeous has the perfect husband and family in Massachusetts, where she pursues a "funsy" career as a radio agony aunt. When they meet up at Sara'a house in Holland Park to celebrate her 54th birthday, reawakened familial bonds cause each women to confront her past and her future. This self-exploration is sometimes painful, but the reunion is made very interesting by the arrival of the New Yorker, Merv, a furrier who takes a shine to Sara. Falling in love at 54 is not impossible, but who said it was meant to be easy?
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"There are real possibilities in life, even for leftover meat and cabbage."
14 Mar 2009
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A reunion of the three Rosensweig sisters for the fifty-fourth birthday celebration of oldest sister Sara Goode, provides feminist author Wendy Wasserstein the opportunity to explore the role of women in society, their opportunities for success, their roles as Jews, and their searches for identity, all trademark themes for Wasserstein. In this play, however, the characters are much quirkier than usual, offering Wasserstein more opportunities for pointed, and sometimes poignant, humor than one finds in some of her other plays. All three Rosensweigs, having grown up in Brooklyn, have now moved on to other parts of the world, individually accepting what they want from their heritage while rejecting the rest.
Sara, a highly successful banker, lives with her daughter Tess in Queen Anne's Gate, London. Married and divorced twice, Sara is no longer interested in marriage, nor does she believe that she will ever return "home." The middle sister, "Gorgeous" Teitelbaum, lives in the Boston suburbs and has an advice program on Boston radio, where she is "Doctor Gorgeous." The youngest, Pfeni Rosensweig, age forty and never married, wanders the world as a journalist and is working on a study of the women of Tajikistan. None are truly happy, though all are reasonably content. During the weekend with Sara, their relationships with each other and with the men in their lives unfold, creating tensions and crises for all. Sara's daughter Tess, about to begin college, acts as a young foil for the opinions of the older generation and puts many of their issues into a more modern perspective.... Read more ›
Sara, a highly successful banker, lives with her daughter Tess in Queen Anne's Gate, London. Married and divorced twice, Sara is no longer interested in marriage, nor does she believe that she will ever return "home." The middle sister, "Gorgeous" Teitelbaum, lives in the Boston suburbs and has an advice program on Boston radio, where she is "Doctor Gorgeous." The youngest, Pfeni Rosensweig, age forty and never married, wanders the world as a journalist and is working on a study of the women of Tajikistan. None are truly happy, though all are reasonably content. During the weekend with Sara, their relationships with each other and with the men in their lives unfold, creating tensions and crises for all. Sara's daughter Tess, about to begin college, acts as a young foil for the opinions of the older generation and puts many of their issues into a more modern perspective.... Read more ›
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Ms. Wasserstein continues to delight
11 Aug 2000
By Lauren Bonner
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Reading a play by Wendy Wasserstien is always a delight, but even though all of her writings are to be savored, The Sisters Rosensweig exhibits an important mark in the author's maturing style. In spite of this maturation, however, the story line never grows stale and Ms. Wasserstein never fails to draw from her reader a smile and a laugh, and give to give us a refreshed sense of the type of person we want to be--it's self-help through fiction!
The Sisters Rosensweig follows the reunion of three Jewish sisters who come together for a visit in Queen Anne's Gate, London, and the joys and struggles they share concerning romance, careers, childhood, and family--joys and struggles with which we all identify, not only as women but as human beings. Thank you, Ms. Wasserstien, for another delightful treat!
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Sweet Family Union
12 Nov 2004
By Aco
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The Sisters Rosensweig is a terrific, sweet and very humane play about a gathering of people, in particular three Jewish American sisters in London in 1991. Each of the sisters is stuck in some way, trapped by time in their mid-lives. They are joined at oldest sister Sara's London home by Sara's daughter, and several male suitors/friends.
Throughout Wasserstein keeps the tone light and the wit cracking. Everyone of these characters is intelligent and visible, knows the world yet remains perplexed by their own lives.
To me this is the type of affirming family bound play that warms, and though life remains elusive in many ways, the sisters know they have each other and use that love and charity to sweet degrees.
Recommended, smart and funny.
Throughout Wasserstein keeps the tone light and the wit cracking. Everyone of these characters is intelligent and visible, knows the world yet remains perplexed by their own lives.
To me this is the type of affirming family bound play that warms, and though life remains elusive in many ways, the sisters know they have each other and use that love and charity to sweet degrees.
Recommended, smart and funny.
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The Sisters Rosensweig-great script
8 Feb 2010
By Kathryn L. Murphy
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I was looking for a good audition piece for a woman over 50, and my acting coach suggested this script. Not only did I find some excellent pieces, I found a great play!!!!!
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