Word: gellburg
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Broken Glass revisits familiar Miller terrain. The era is the Depression, the battleground is a Jewish family, the ugly rumbling offstage is the rise of Adolf Hitler. The mainspring of the play is the paralysis that Sylvia Gellburg suffers in her legs, which has no apparent physical cause. Is it a result of her sexless and bitter marriage? Is it linked to the futile assimilationism of her Jew-among-Wasps banker husband? Is it somehow tied to her Cassandra-like obsession with Hitler's assault on German Jews, a threat in which no one around her sees urgency...
...once our most destructive and most redemptive condition. Taking on other people's problems exacerbates one's own; ignoring them leaves one spiritually dead. The doctor theorizes that people do not get sick alone, but in twos and threes and fours -- and more. That has happened to Sylvia Gellburg and to the world collapsing around...
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