Sisters3
World Premiere
Written by Jodi L. Schenck
Produced by David Danino

Directed by David Danino
September 8th – September 29th 2005
Cast:
KK Goodrich, Josh Latzer, David Marc, Helene Marciano, Vanessa Marsot and Matt Pittenger.

This very “Yiddishkeit” black comedy deals with the strains and complexities facing young Jewish women today in dealing with the responsibilities and expectations thrust upon them regarding commitment, parenthood, religion and family. The three former “Kleinman” sisters and their respective husbands/lovers meet at the Shiva of their mother, Myra Kleinman, a hard and bitter woman, who has died as she lived, unloving and unloved.
Andrea, the eldest, is a forty-something hard-headed business woman, married to a gentle and ineffectual book shop owner named Paul. She has assimilated into the larger world of American society, but somehow can’t seem to entirely divest herself of her Brooklyn roots. In her desperate desire to “make something of herself”, she cannot quite escape the feeling that she has lost something too. She and her husband lead a caustic yet deeply loving relationship. Susanna is nearing forty, and has suffered multiple tragedies in her drive to have a baby of her own. She is afraid her biological clock is ticking down, and has retreated into the safety of newly-found Orthodox Judaism. For her husband Marc this is nothing new, since over the years, at times of emotional stress, Susanna has looked for answers in Christian Science, Bahai and Buddhism. Marc is laid-back, mildly sarcastic and passionately in love with his emotionally fragile wife. Adding to this volatile mix is Jennifer, Myra’s mid-life baby, who at 19, has arrived home from college with her decidedly non-Jewish fiancée Lukas and an added surprise.
Sisters3 is a painful, funny and wry look at the way modern Jewish women face all the options of living today, and how they cope, with wit, resilience and occasional tears