“As presented, one can't imagine these women inhabiting the same country, let alone the same sitting room. Alice's sour wisecracks only grow more rancorous with the years, making Eleanor's forbearance virtually impossible to understand. As framed here, they're panelists in an endless point-counterpoint debate, each offering sound bites about war, isolationism, economics, and the United Nations. They make their arguments neatly enough but there's no real clash of ideas, in part because their relationship has little psychological reality.”
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-“Despite each coming together of the cousins being mostly antagonistic, the play lacked vibrancy and immediacy and a need for the characters to be in the scene together.”
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“If tragicomedy were an accurate way to describe the ordeals that both Roosevelt women faced during their lifetimes and their respective attempts at resilience, then it would be prudent to label the play’s genre as such.”
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