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he Sisters Rosensweig, the
next play to be performed
by Stagecrafters in Royal
Oak, was ahead of its time
when it was introduced in 1992. The
seriocomic work, written by Tony
Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning
playwright Wendy Wasserstein, calls
attention to problems that have been
faced by women in Afghanistan.
That's one reason Lindy Bruton of
Southfield is glad to be portraying
Pfeni, the youngest in the trio of
Jewish-American sisters named in
the play's title. Pfeni is a journalist
who has written about Afghanistan.
She is visiting London with her
older sister Gorgeous Teitelbaum to
participate in the 54th birthday cele-
bration of the eldest sister, Sara
Goode, an expatriate banker.
"I directed this play about three
years ago for the Rosedale Community
Players, and I just love it," says Bruton,
who teaches about the Holocaust at
Groves High School in Birmingham.
"When I auditioned, I said I would
read for any of the sisters."
Bruton, who earned a theater edu-
cation degree from Eastern
Michigan University, originally
thought she would pursue a profes-
sional stage career but took a more
practical approach and went into
teaching. She's maintained her inter-
est through community theater, start-
ing the Woods Players, which has dis-
banded, and bringing her husband,
John, and two grown daughters into
Rosedale productions.
"Being part of a theater group, gives
me new energy," she says.
Mon-Sat 11 am - 10 pm
Sunday 4 pm - 9:30 pm
New Pursuit
Theater is a newer pursuit for
Deborah Silverman, who takes the
part of Gorgeous Teitelbaum, a subur-
ban-housewife-turned-radio-talk-
show-host who's funny and open.
Silverman, a Farmington Hills resi-
dent who has been active with ORT
and the City of Hope, also has per-
formed with the Orchard Ridge Players.
Attendance at a Stagecrafters fund-rais-
ing event is leading to her first appear-
ance with a professional company.
"A friend successfully bid for a walk-
on role at Second City, and I've really
been looking forward to that," she says.
Bit Part
Phil Berns, 64, a Wayne State University
administrative retiree, plays Nick Pym, a
friend of the older sister and described
by the actor as "a snob and a jerk."
"I have fun with this guy, trying to
be as despicable as I can, and the lines
In "The Sisters Rosensweig," three disparate
siblings reunite after a lengthy separation
and come to terms with their differences.
Pictured, left to right, are cast members
Lindy Bruton as Pfeni, Dianne Sievers as
Sara and Deborah Silverman as Gorgeous.
let me give him an edge," says Berns, a
Lathrup Village resident who has been
in and out of theater programs since
attending Central High School in
Detroit. "I'm on stage for 15 lines, but
they talk about me first."
Berne, who had his bar mitzvah at the
Detroit Institute of Arts in an arrange-
ment made by a Reform congregation,
has appeared with Ridgedale Players
and SRO Productions.
"Theater has been my main creative
and social outlet," Berns says.
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The Sisters Rosensweig will be per-
formed 8 p.m. Thursdays-
Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays,
Feb. 8-24, at the Baldwin
Theatre, 415 S. Lafayette, Royal
Oak. $12-$14. (248) 541-6430.