The Canadian Jewish News--February 13, 1997
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Globetrotting actress to hop a ship in TBDJ play
MONTREAL - Lynda Grossman is a globetrotter; so it's in character for her to hop a ship for Tokyo. She'll be doing exactly that on Feb. 25 when she stars as Bertha Jacoby in A Majority of One at Place des Arts.
Her destination is the focus of the plot. In this stage version of the Rosalind Russel movie, Mrs. Jacoby leaves Brooklyn in the early 1950's to accompany her daughter and diplomat son-in-law to his new posting in the Orient.
The transition is not without anxiety since the Jewish mother is struggling with the fact that her only son was killed in Japan during World War II, just a few years earlier. On the ship, she meets a Japanese gentleman, Mr. Asano, played by Cote St. Luc City Councillor and lawyer Mitchell Brownstein who, in "real Life" just returned from the Team Canada Asian trade mission.
This is the man upon whom she initially bents her distrust, until he proves his decency and the two are able to build bridges between everything from parallel holidays, ti sake and chicken soup. Her worries about Mr. Asano are soon replaced by her children's unease about their blooming friendship.
