SOURCE: Winn, Steven. “Of Two Minds on Tolerance: Twins Take Opposite Paths in Comic Play.” The San Francisco Chronicle (3 April 2000): D3.

In the following review, Winn notes the lack of humor in The Mineola Twins and contends that the play “whips past four decades of American cultural landmarks without making these brisk travelers stand out or matter quite enough.”

To Paula Vogel, the “play” in “playwright” means having fun with the form. In How I Learned to Drive, her light-fingered Pulitzer Prize winner about child molestation, and The Baltimore Waltz, which dealt with her brother's death from AIDS in a wistful romance, Vogel leavened her subjects with a nimble and tender comic touch.

The Mineola Twins, a 1998 script in its competent West Coast premiere at the Actors Theatre, is a thinner piece of work. Structured as a cartoon fable, it follows suburban twin sisters from the 1950s to...