The Sisters Rosensweig | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 3 pages of analysis & critique of The Sisters Rosensweig.

The Sisters Rosensweig | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 3 pages of analysis & critique of The Sisters Rosensweig.
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SOURCE: "Chez Rosensweig," in The New Yorker, Vol. LXVIII, No. 37, November 2, 1992, p. 105.

In the following review, Oliver offers praise for The Sisters Rosensweig.

Admirers of Wendy Wasserstein (fan club may be more like it) will be relieved to know that she is as romantic as ever, and that her head is in the right place, too, while her tongue remains safely in her cheek. I use the word "romantic" because her new play, The Sisters Rosensweig, at the Mitzi Newhouse, is more in tune with her Isn't It Romantic, of some years ago, than with the recent Heidi Chronicles. The Sisters Rosensweig takes place in the elegant London sitting room of Sara Goode, née Rosensweig, a twice-divorced American Jew who is the European director of the Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank. (It's interesting to note that the small stage of the Mitzi can, under the right auspices, seem...

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