A big day for the Goldbergs
A bitter-sweet portrait of a loving, though dysfunctional, Jewish family
Brian Daniel’s first play, ‘A Big Day for the Goldbergs,’ is a bitter-sweet portrait of a loving, though dysfunctional, Jewish family – two sisters and their divorced mother - living in Leeds. While one of the sisters prepares to marry a man she hopes one day to love, the other escapes the stifling claustrophobia of her home life to work in a circus.
With a script developed from an original monologue commissioned for the Leeds Jewish Performing Arts Festival, ‘A Big Day for the Goldbergs’ draws on Brian’s childhood observations of what he describes as ‘all the neuroses of a provincial Jewish life and its ghetto mentality.’ This play has had two London seasons, a run at the Edinburgh Festival and toured the UK.
