Vogel, Paula - Everett Evans (review date 16 August 2000)
Everett Evans (review date 16 August 2000)
SOURCE: Evans, Everett. “Mineola Twins Rates Double Laughs.” Houston Chronicle (16 August 2000): 4.
[In the following review, Evans lauds Vogel's humor as well as the inspired premise of The Mineola Twins.]
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel (How I Learned to Drive, The Baltimore Waltz) has built The Mineola Twins around an inspired premise, rich in comic potential.
In Vogel's satiric look at American womanhood from the 1950s-'80s, twins Myrna and Myra are identical opposites. Alike in looks, they are night and day in attitudes and experiences. Life and the playwright put them through the wringer, with wild adventures that drive them to opposite ends of the sociopolitical spectrum, despite occasional psychic flashes of sisterly connection. Produced off-Broadway in 1999 with Swoosie Kurtz doing a bravura turn in the title roles, The Mineola...
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