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herry Glaser is playing
"I've Got a Secret"
with some telling
results.
Ms. Glaser is the star and
co-author of Family Secrets,
a one-woman show with
multiple personalities that
opened off-Broadway at the
Westside Theater.
One of those personalities
is a manic-depressive, a fact
which hits home for the
Family Secrets star. "My
mother was manic
depressive, and her mother
was manic depressive,"
relates Ms. Glaser.
"I have a little bit of it too
— but the difference is, only
on the stage."
Critically acclaimed on its
way to off-Broadway, Ms.
I Glaser's Secrets is a revela-
tion for star and audience. It
is no secret, however, that
other characters depicted on
stage have roots in Sherry
Glaser's Jewish home life,
too.
The bulimic teen on stage
"was me," concedes Ms.
Glaser. "I had it for eight
years. Luckily I got over it."
The incontinent character?
"My grandmother," says
Sherry Glaser, who co-wrote
the play with her husband,
Greg Howells, who also
directed.
At this stage of her life,
can Ms. Glaser, 33, act out
the past without feeling the
pain? "I decided to do this
play because I wanted to
heal my life and the pain I
have been through," says
the writer/actress.
"Theater is an incredible
medium for communal heal-
ing."
But there is no panacea for
all the pain; the footlights
don't radiate incandescent
cures, after all. Talking
about her mother's manic
depression can still be pain-
ful. "It always will be."
Alone on stage, the actress
still feels the abandonment
she endured as a child due to
her mother's illness. Ms.
Glaser understands she is
not alone in feeling that
isolation.
"It is a big issue for people
who have mental illness in
their family," notes Ms.
Glaser.
But Family Secrets is not
Michael Elkin is entertain-
ment editor of' the Jewish Ex-
ponent in Philadelphia.
Sherry Glaser:
A family in one.
earning bravos because of
unbounded breast-beating
and tear-stained tirades.
There is much humor in the
piece, which is called a
"comedic portrait of three
generations of a family."
The play generated raves in
Los Angeles, San Francisco,
Miami and San Diego.
Some of the best reviews
for Family Secrets are com-
ing from Sherry Glaser's
family. "They are so happy
about it," as well as suppor-
tive, says the performer.
Certainly, a Jewish family
has its own built-in sense of
drama. "The dramatics of a
Jewish family makes it so
comical," says Ms. Glaser.
"Everything about the family is
so huge."
There are some big im-
pressions lingering from
childhood. "I recall the yell-
ing over the seder table, the
faces, delightful jaws, eyes,
noses. . . You can find more
drama there than in a non-
Jewish family," she says
with a laugh.
The Fiddler would have
had a field day. The tunes of
childhood were serenades to
seasons laden with hap-
piness and tears.
But then, says Ms. Glaser,
"a lot of comedy is painful."
Cultural Judaism, if not
the religion, provided balm
and a sense of bonding dur-
ing the hard times. "It was a
feeling of unconditional
love, - recalls the actress,
"which I associate with my
culture and healing."
Not that religion was a
prescription she could count