Wendy Kesselman
Encyclopedia
Life
Wendy Kesselman came to the Actors Theater of Louisville in 1980. She lives in Wellfleet, MassachusettsWellfleet, Massachusetts
Wellfleet is a New England town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States. Located halfway between the "tip" and "elbow" of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, the town had a population of 2,749 at the 2000 census, which swells nearly sixfold during the summer...
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Works
- Becca, 1977, 1980
- Merry-Go-Round, 1981, 1981
- I Love You, I Love You Not, 1982, 1982
- Cinderella In A Mirror, 1987
- The Griffin, And The Minor Cannon, 1988
- A Tale Of Two Cities, 1992
- The Butcher's Daughter, 1993
- The Diary Of Anne Frank, 1997 (adaptation)
- The Last Bridge, 2002
- The Black Monk, 2008
- Olympe And The Executioner
Film
- I Love You, I Love You Not, 1997
- Sister, My Sister, 1994
Reviews
WENDY KESSELMAN'S My Sister in This House begins as a cool, black satire of provincial bourgeois life, turns into a macabre tale of incestuous homosexual love and ends with an explosion of Grand Guignol violence. If this play sounds discomforting, it is - and it means to be. Miss Kesselman's subject is repression -social, sexual, religious and political - and the havoc it wreaks on its victims. The author's feelings run so strong that she'll burn down the theater if that's what it takes to get the audience to see her point of view.