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Theatre Communications Group (1997), Paperback, 96 pages
Description
The newest play by the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Driving Miss Daisy.
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LibraryThing member marfita
Finally, my knitting comes in handy!
Being Jewish and social-climbing in the South clashes with the opening night of "Gone With the Wind." There's nary an Israelite for fifty miles, so I join a cast of people who can barely manage southern even though most are from around here or have lived here
Being Jewish and social-climbing in the South clashes with the opening night of "Gone With the Wind." There's nary an Israelite for fifty miles, so I join a cast of people who can barely manage southern even though most are from around here or have lived here
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most of their lives, much less Jewish. It's like that accent expert trying to make Julia Roberts sound like someone from Atlanta when, fercrissake, she is someone from Atlanta. I look up from my knitting and wonder what all these goyim are doing around me. Everyone seems to be trying to sound southern and Jewish at the same time in order to convince a theatre full of blue-haired Baptists. God I love the theatre! It's the blessed irony in the dichotomy of reality and fiction. On the whole, though, I don't think the show is much different than, say, "Crossing Delancy." It just has a larger cast and a different set of accents. Show Less
LibraryThing member TakeItOrLeaveIt
not a great play but I read it for some class.
Awards
Pulitzer Prize (Finalist — Drama — 1997)
Tony Award (Winner — Play — 1997)
Outer Critics Circle Award (Winner — 1996-1997)
Original publication date
1996
Physical description
96 p.; 5.39 inches
ISBN
1559361409 / 9781559361408
UPC
601531544928