Vogel, Paula - Patti Hartigan (review date 7 March 1997)
Patti Hartigan (review date 7 March 1997)
SOURCE: Hartigan, Patti. “Trinity's Mineola Twins Leads a Double Life.” Boston Globe (7 March 1997): D4.
[In the following review, Hartigan offers a mixed review of The Mineola Twins.]
Imagine a set of identical twins destined to grow up diametrically opposed to each other. As adolescents, they draw a line down the middle of their bedroom, setting up an ideological and territorial battleground they spend the rest of their lives fighting over.
What happens when biological twins disagree? What happens to baby boomettes who choose radically different lifestyles? What happens to women who are haunted by the same fears but end up miles apart in mindset? What happens to a culture so divided that dialogue is impossible?
Those are the intriguing questions playwright Paula Vogel asks in her play The Mineola Twins, which is having its New England premiere at Trinity Repertory...
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