A Manchester Girlhood
Author(s):
Julia Pascal
Company:
Pascal Theatre Company
In Bucharest 1910, Esther Goldenberg has been forced to marry Emanuel Jacobs. He is her parents’ choice. The two young Romanian Jews go to Manchester and have three daughters, Isabel, Edith and Pearl. Isabel’s only ambition is to be a doctor’s wife. Edith becomes a soldier. Pearl marries a GI. These three sisters are at the heart of the drama.
This dream-like text explores the idea that each person relives intense moments from a whole life in the moment before death.
