An Adroit Study of Engaging Characters and Heritage, ‘The Wanderers’ Sparkles
You don’t have to be Jewish to appreciate the eloquence, insight, and deeply humane vision that Anna Ziegler applies to her wanderers on their disparate journeys.
Toward the end of Anna Ziegler’s charming, penetrating new play, “The Wanderers,” a successful writer describes watching a famous actress pose a question to one of his heroes, Philip Roth, during a literary gala: “She raises her hand and asks how he would characterize himself — is he Jewish first, or a man, or an American. Or an a–hole … or an artist.”
And what is Roth’s reply? “He said, ‘There is nothing I could say that would not be a fiction except that I am first and last the product of my parents.”
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