Sue Bigelow, Janice Goldberg
Set in 1938 Chicago, Rose Colored Glass takes place in the back rooms of Lady O'Riley's pub and Rose Fleishman's delicatessen. Their disparate worlds, separated by much more than the alley between their kitchens, are about to collide. Peg O'Riley, the 13-year-old granddaughter of Lady, has grown determined that these two mistrustful widows will become friends, but it is not until they become involved in the same cause that their friendship has a chance to bloom.
In a series of stunning flashbacks, Peg, now older, remembers the moving story of how Lady and Rose formed a united front to fight American apathy in an attempt to bring Rose's nephew out of Europe before the war. Rose Colored Glass is a unique work – it explores the beginning of the Holocaust from an American perspective, showing two remarkable women as they struggle with American apathy, immigration laws and bureaucracy, and their own prejudices... all in the name of one boy's safe passage from Europe to America.
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Janice L. Goldberg co-wrote Rose Colored Glass with Susan Bigelow. This play, published by Samuel French, received its Off-Broadway premiere at Theatre 54 and was named as a 2009 and 2010 selection for the NEA’s Big Read Program in California and Maryland. Ms. Goldberg has di ...
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