There's a lot going on in the play, but nothing deep enough to make an impact
If you ask most sex experts about the best advice they would have to insure a pleasurable bump-uglies encounter, they'd probably say something along the lines of"take your time, slow down and explore." So it's odd that the play Becoming Dr. Ruth, about the renowned media sex maven Dr. Ruth Westheimer, seems so rushed and skittery.
Westheimer is certainly worthy of a biographical play. Born in Germany in 1928 to a Jewish family, she is a Holocaust survivor, and served as a sniper for a Zionist underground paramilitary organization. After moving to France, earning an undergraduate degree and teaching psychology at the Sorbonne, she immigrated to the U.S. That's where she eventually hit the jackpot in the 1980's with her"Sexually Speaking" radio call-in show.
Jacobson does a creditable job echoing Dr. Ruth's distinctive German-infused accent, her quick giggle, and her no-nonsense advice when she advises her listeners to"love your penis, love your vagina." Some of the clever rejoinders she was famous for are here, but time has dimmed some of the jokes that felt so fresh and startling a few decades ago. Now, with people getting their sex advice from viciously candid experts such as Dan Savage and many others, Dr.
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