In this play, Jessica, a writer approaching middle age, her illiterate mother Ruth, and her Jewish mother-in-law, Rachel, find themselves emotionally stranded in Jessica's beach home. Jessica's lover of several years standing has died suddenly and Ruth and Rachel have come to offer comfort. As they wait for Polly, Jessica's daughter, to return from a high school dance of the previous night, they weigh the choices each of them have made as women, as daughters, and as mothers. Recollections of guilt and regret are punctuated by wry observations on sex, history, ideas and their relationships with the men in their lives.
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Wonderful conversation piece between 3 generations of women,
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This review is from: If We Are Women (Paperback)
I picked up this book by chance at a theatre bookstore in Toronto. On reading in for the first time, I was mostly amused at the wit of it and the honesty with which the women expose their deepest fears. On re-reading it, I was touched by the degree to which a very real sense of failure in one of the characters appears perfetly riduculous to the others. In showing this with wit and warmth, McClelland Glass tackles one of the most important and most misunderstand issues in communications between people: not everyone places the same weight on the same things, and one would be well served by remembering that.
I eventually decided that I wanted to see the play performed and so am directing it for Tokyo International Players. Having "lived" with it for the last three months, it is still fresh and very good fun.
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A funny and touching play,
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This review is from: If We Are Women: A Play (Acting Edition) (Paperback)
I saw this play performed in San Antonio several years ago and I've been longing for a copy of my own. The dialogue is absolutely hilarious, though the play deals with a girl who's being led astray by her boyfriend, and the concern of her single mother and her two grandmothers. A scene involving a crossword puzzle becomes a critique of each woman's lifestyle. These women have very different personalities and must overcome the communication barriers they've created for themselves before they can work out their problems. An excellent, moving, and very funny play.
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