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Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein spoke excitedly about her life, her craft and women's role in the arts to a crowd of more than 200 drama enthusiasts at the Agassiz Theater last night...
...works, I tend to write about my generation, things that have been bothering me, how the times in which one lives affect one's choices and what it is like to be a Jewish woman," Wasserstein said...
...Wasserstein, a graduate of the Yale School of Drama, had her first play, Uncommon Women and Others, produced in 1978, and has since written four other plays, among them The Heidi Chronicles, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize in 1989. The Sisters Rosensweig, which enjoyed a three-year run on Broadway, earned five Tony Award nominations...
...Pfeni, who, as Sara puts it, "is on a permanent junior-year-abroad." McMurtrey is properly zany and funny as the madcap youngest sister and even makes her relationship with Geoffrey seem believable. She is less convincing when agonizing over her career but that is partly the fault of Wasserstein, who, as always, shows more interest in people's relationships to each other than in their relationship to their work...
Given how well Wasserstein turns stereotypes inside out for the rest of her characters, it is disappointing that the daughter Tess is not more three-dimensional. Not only is Tess sick of England, she also wants to join the Lithuanian resistance; not only does she hate her mom's friends, she actually talks about how "bourgeois" it is to have a dinner party when people are starving. The inconsistencies in her character are blinding--she's planning to run away to Lithuania but is working on a summer project for school; she rails against her mother's lifestyle but, after...