The Sisters Rosensweig

Play

Writers: Wendy Wasserstein

Context

Wendy Wasserstein’s play The Sisters Rosensweig contains many of the themes the playwright was known for, most notably her focus on women and women’s lives. As she writes in the Preface to the play, “I deliberately set out to write smart and funny parts for women over forty.” Contained within these women’s lives is the search for identity, the conflicts of economics and class systems, and the significance of religion.

The play itself is set against the fall of the Soviet Union. While Soviet states are experiencing an economic upheaval that impacts political structures, Sara Goode (the

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