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Golden Ladder
Author(s):
Donna Spector
This comedy/drama is an exploration of the difficulties many people experience when they come from families torn by religious and ethnic differences.
Raised as a Presbyterian by her anti-Semitic mother who married a Jew, CATHERINE worries that her father, a “Jewish atheist,” will go to Hell. Because her Catholic friend MARY has told her that Jewish girls have excessive hormones, when she meets AARON FELDMAN, CATHERINE assumes he is her sexual destiny. Too innocent at 14 to be lovers, they become close friends until CATHERINE breaks off their friendship because she knows her father wants her to please her mother. With zealous fervor CATHERINE tries to be a Presbyterian, then a Catholic and finally a Fundamentalist Christian. But each fails to satisfy her because she is motivated by the wrong reasons. Ultimately CATHERINE realizes that in denying her Jewish heritage she has become like her mother. It is then that she returns to AARON and the religion of her father and grandmother.
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| Genre(s): | Comedy
| | Time Period(s): | Contemporary 1950 -1990
| | Play Type: | Play | | Runtime: | 100 minutes | | Acts: | 2 | | Set Complexity: | Simple | | Set Information: | Not Available | | Year First Published: | 2003 | | Total Characters: | 6 | | Male Characters: | 2 | | Female Characters: | 4 | | Androgynous Characters: | Not Available | | Minimum Cast: | Not Available | | Maximum Cast: | Not Available | | Cost: | Not Available | | Publisher: | Smith & Kraus
Click on the publisher's name above for additional information, including updated prices. | | ISBN: | Not Available |
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