The Yiddish Trojan Women
by Carole Braverman

Name: The Yiddish Trojan Women
Brand: Carole Braverman
SKU: 9780822215363
Rating: 4 (5 reviews)

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Highlights

Small Cast

Female

Male

120 minsUnit Set/Multiple SettingsAmerican

Synopsis

THE STORY: A tightly constructed, interwoven story of four Jewish women, Devorah, an ex-Yiddish torch singer and a refugee from the Polish pogroms, and her three granddaughters: Brenda, a stand-up comic; Abby, a passionately committed union organiz

Press Reviews

"Set in Brooklyn in the 1980s, the play concerns itself with personal and political dilemmas as they are lived by four strong-willed Jewish women. ”THE YIDDISH TROJAN WOMEN has craft, it has passion and it asks real questions about how we live: what we believe in, what we yearn for, what we'd kill or die for; what principles we want to live by…The play's power is that it makes us live through every one of these choices intensely and intimately…“ —The New York Times. ”Carole Braverman's excellent and happily complex play, THE YIDDISH TROJAN WOMEN…has passion, it has wit, and it deals with both people and issues…The play has a life of its own so that it grows rather than unfolds.“ —New York Post. ”Braverman is a moral dramatists who earns the right to every judgment she makes through piercing ironies, eloquent command of differing speech idioms and detailed character examination…"
— London Independent