The Life of a Sisterby Anna Fuerstenberg
(Rehearsal shots by Ron Diamond)
Rachelle Glait is currently directing Les Belles Sœurs at the Segal and she graciously consented to be interviewed after casting me as Rose.
CHARPO: Were you born here?
GLAIT: Yes. We lived on Clark Street. My parents survived the war in the Soviet
Union and my father was attacked in the notorious postwar pogrom in
Kielce, Poland. They thought he was dead and they had put him on a cart with
bodies on it, and then a doctor found him still breathing. My mother had already
given him up for dead. My mother survived in Uzbekistan.
CHARPO: What did your dad do?
GLAIT: He was a foreman at a children’s wear factory. He thought that way
I would always have clothes to wear.
CHARPO: This is what is known as weird Jewish geography. My mother was
from Radom, near Kielce, and she was on her way home when she met the people running away from the Kielce pogrom. She also survived with my older brother in Uzbekistan and Kirgizstan.
How did you begin acting?
GLAIT: I had been playing with costumes and roles from childhood, I even
wrote to Disney asking for a part in a movie. I tried ballet and tap for a year, but I wasn’t cut out to be a dancer.
