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an education but listens to her mother
and marries; over time, it will be diffi-
cult to know which she resents more,
iven the Herculean role of
her mother's emotional inaccessibility
imbuing the home and its
or the dreams she let slip through her
inhabitants with rituals and
grasp.
culture, observant Jewish
Mary's own daughter
women through the ages
Deborah (Michele Messmer),
have had a remarkable invisi-
is encouraged to have it all
bility: denied Talmudic schol-
— a husband, a career and a
arship, hidden from view in the syna-
family — but nothing comes with a
gogue, barred from the bimah.
guarantee.
Putting modern American Jewish
Delicately weaving a family's tapes-
women center stage — and their
try over 60 years in Sherman's non-
inevitable march toward contempo-
linearly constructed script, director
Yolanda Fleischer wisely
concentrates on the strong
themes within the work
rather than focusing on
unnecessary details to pin-
point the era at hand.
As an ensemble, Orbach,
Berg and Messmer play off
each other beautifully.
With a slight physical
nuance, a change in gait or
tone of voice, each actor
deftly embodies her charac
ter's fluctuating age. Still,
Sherman's script clearly
maintains that unresolved -
inner conflict remains even
more pervasive than age in
one's personality.
Quite striking are the
naturalism of Sherman's
dialogue, the accessibility
of it, and how astute this
gentleman's play about
women is. If you aren't
exactly one of these
Evelyn Orbach, Susan Marie Berg and Michele
women, you partly are —
Messmer in "Door to Door"
or know someone who's
said almost the same
words.
rary society — the Jewish Ensemble
The wordplay of Door to Door
Theatre's production of James
comes from rotor v'dor — literally
Sherman's Door to Door presents with
translated, "from generation to genera-
grace and poignancy what it means to
tion."
be a mother, daughter and, above all,
Clearly, mothering is a constant
a Jewish woman in America.
editing process; what we splice in
Haunted by a world torn apart by
from our own mothers is just as criti-
anti-Semitism, Bessie (Evelyn Orbach) cal as what remains on the cutting
has steeled herself against what may
room floor. ❑
come by never speaking of the past.
Still, those memories can't help bub-
JET'S Door to Door runs through
bling to the surface, fueling anxiety
Feb. 13 at the Aaron DeRoy
toward everything from Oswald's
Theater in the West Bloomfield
assassination to Communism.
Jewish Community Center. (248)
Raised under that shroud, Mary
788-2900.
(Susan Marie Berg) angles to pursue
a
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