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In the following review, Simon commends The Sisters Rosensweig for being ‘‘both of its time . . . and of all time.’’
The Sisters Rosensweig is Wendy Wasserstein’s most accomplished play to date. It is throughcomposed, with no obtrusive narrator haranguing us. Its central, but not hypertrophic, character is the eldest sister, Sara Goode, divorced from her second husband. An expatriate in London, she is celebrating her fifty-fourth birthday, for which her younger sister Gorgeous Teitelbaum has flown in from Boston, where she dispenses personal advice over the airwaves. From farthest India, the youngest sister, Pfeni Rosensweig, has jetted in; now a travel writer, she is shirking her mission, a...
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