The Sisters Rosensweig | The Clever Laugh
In the following review excerpt, Kroll complains that Wasserstein goes for ‘‘the clever laugh, the situation that charms rather than challenges’’ in The Sisters Rosensweig.
There’s a fine borderline between entertaining an audience and ingratiating oneself with it. In her new play The Sisters Rosensweig Wendy Wasserstein violates that border. Wasserstein, who won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for her play The Heidi Chronicles, has dealt deftly with the thorny ironies of the young feminist middle class. But in her new play she settles for—ironies of the young feminist middle class. But in her new play she settles for—no, insists on—the clever laugh, the situation that charms rather than challenges. The play deals with three Jewish-American...
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