Word: daughters
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...unique and sensitive manner. Instead of focusing on the survivors themselves and their inability to go on living, Simple Truths explores the plight of the descendants of holocaust survivors and how the legacy of guilt destroys their lives as well. Susan Warner, the novel's protagonist, is the daughter of two concentration camp survivors. Her father escaped death by working as a camp physician, a fact which Susan's mother, an embittered and vengeful woman, takes pleasure in tormenting him with. Neither of Susan's parents are able to release themselves from their world of guilt, and both wind...
...Repertory Theatre is currently putting on three one-act plays--two of them by Beckett--amorphous enough to make Waiting for Godot seem full of plot. Only after a good deal of thought does the substance of Beckett's Footfalls and Rockaby become ap parent: Footfalls explores a mother-daughter relationship, while Rockaby portrays a woman persuading herself to die. The third play, Eugene O'Neill's Hughie, provides a more concrete setting for the very abstract emotions which characterize the evening...
...Take Her, She's Mine opened on Broadway. The autobiographical comedy by Phoebe and Henry Ephron concerned a middle-aged couple and their recalcitrant daughter Mollie. Onstage the teen-ager was impersonated by an actress named Elizabeth Ashley. At home she was played by a girl called Nora...
...large, impoverished Jewish family. In infancy she is left alone to play in the dirt outdoors. In childhood she becomes the butt of her Christian schoolmates. As the Nazis approach, Tzili is abandoned by her parents. She seeks shelter among the peasants in the district, claiming to be the daughter of the local Gentile whore. But if she is spared deportation as a Jew, she is execrated as one of the devil's brood. "The peasants drove her mercilessly. She cleaned the cow shed ... brought firewood from the forest. At night the peasant's wife would mutter...
There are soap-operatic calamities in this extended family, complete with a widowed aunt (Joyce Van Patten), her restless older daughter (Jodi Thelen) and her coddled, sickly younger one (Mandy Ingber). But they are redeemed by Simon's abiding affection. In a character portrait in depth, Željko Ivanek, as Eugene's older brother, provides his panting sibling with a silver lining: not a Yankees uniform but a French postcard. This season's silver lining is Neil Simon's love letter to his past...