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OverviewTwo cultures, one life, many masks; conflict and comedy in an actress/playwright's Anglo-Jewish identity quest. Actress and playwright Vanessa Rosenthal has been searching for her identity her whole life. Is she Jewish or not? English or not? This character, or that, on and off stage? As she explores these conflicting positions, her frank and funny findings form the basis of this fascinating memoir, bringing her to no fixed conclusion. Vanessa's story covers her early life and family and how her mother's conversion to Judaism sowed the seed of being on the outside looking in. It takes the reader through her years of marriage and family, and the comic trials and successes of life as an actor, mother, wife and 'establishment' partner as well as her travels in Europe and Israel. Along the way she examines many taboos on Jewishness, including the deeply sensitive subject of how Judaism deals with conversion. The questions persist despite a happy and creative life, bursting at the seams but this multifaceted and moving memoir moves her closer to one answer: as an apparently insufficiently Jewish Jew, what or who should she be? This memoir will appeal to readers who enjoyed Lynn Barber's An Education and Laura Cumming's On Chapel Sands. AUTHOR: Vanessa Rosenthal, from a Reform Jewish background in Manchester, trained at London's Central School of Speech and Drama. Her long acting career in English theatre has also included festival appearances from Wales to Italy. Her work ranges from early and modern classics and her own plays, to Ayckbourn in Scarborough and Bennett in Leeds, her adopted city, where her husband of 41 years was University Registrar. A long-time playwright for BBC Radio 4, originator of the Writing The Century series, she has also been Writer in Residence at Kings College and taken her plays to London, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Jerusalem. Through Yellow Leaf Theatre, she has encouraged new writing and extended theatre to new venues from art galleries to smaller communities. With her historian partner, her life is spread between her home in Leeds, the Scottish Borders and Le Marche. She has two daughters and five grandsons. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Vanessa RosenthalPublisher: RedDoor Press Imprint: RedDoor Press ISBN: 9781913062835ISBN 10: 191306283 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 21 October 2021 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsChapter 1: Belonging? Chapter 2: London Lights Chapter 3: Beginners on Stage Chapter 4: ‘Let Me Not Admit Impediments’ Chapter 5: All Roads Roam to Leeds Chapter 6: ‘By Indirections Find Directions Out’ Chapter 7: Eastern Europe Chapter 8: Ruth Chapter 9: New Horizons Chapter 10: Bialystok to Burnley Chapter 11: Normandy and Beyond Chapter 12: Being Earnest Chapter 13: Twilight Chapter 14: ‘Writing the Century’ Chapter 15: A New End Chapter 16: And Now AcknowledgmentsReviewsAuthor InformationVanessa Rosenthal, from a Reform Jewish background in Manchester, trained at London’s Central School of Speech and Drama. Her long acting career in English theatre has also included festival appearances from Wales to Italy. Her work ranges from early and modern classics and her own plays, to Ayckbourn in Scarborough and Bennett in Leeds, her adopted city, where her husband of 41 years was University Registrar. A long-time playwright for BBC Radio 4, originator of the Writing The Century series, she has also been Writer in Residence at Kings College and taken her plays to London, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Jerusalem. Through Yellow Leaf Theatre, she has encouraged new writing and extended theatre to new venues from art galleries to smaller communities. With her historian partner, her life is spread between her home in Leeds, the Scottish Borders and Le Marche. She has two daughters and five grandsons. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |