The Housewives of Mannheim
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened May 14, 2010
Closed Jun 6, 2010
Opened May 14, 2010
Closed Jun 6, 2010
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http://www.59E59.org
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
1944. While War is raging overseas, May, Alice, and Billie are home in
Brooklyn marking the days until the men return. Every day has an
unhurried rhythm with the women caring for their children, maintaining
their households, visiting one another to catch up on gossip,
borrowing coffee, trading ration cards and shopping at Loehman's. Into
this carefully crafted world enters Sophie, a woman who has fled the
Holocaust, and her appearance on the scene threatens the delicate
equilibrium that the housewives have so skillfully created.
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Jessica L. Parks' set for Alan Brody's nuanced 1944-set-drama
The Housewives of Mannheim, now at 59E59Theaters, is so true to the movie norm of the day you half expect the actors to materialize in black and white. The tidy Brooklyn kitchen, with its gas stove and new-fangled "fridge," belongs to May (Pheonix Vaughn), who is as Betty Grable-pretty as she is unsophisticated.
We first see her sneaking a peek at an oversize book, which she's quick to hide when a neighbor, Alice (Wendy Peace), comes kibitzing, hoping to cadge some spare labels. Alice fancies herself a contest queen, even if the winners are "always from someplace in South Dakota." She's also the self-appointed neighborhood sno[...]