Breast Size is Fate?

If you were my sister and we were twins and our breast size was the only difference between us I think I would laugh each time we were in the same room.

In Paula Vogel's Mineola Twins Myra and Myrna are twins and the only difference between them is their breast size. They live their life despising each other and dealing with what the other is “missing.” Myra and Myrna are complete opposites, even though they are twins and look alike. One is a radical slut who is liberal beyond belief who ends up having a "life partner" and runs a Planned Parenthood clinic. The other is conservative who rides the purity wagon and ends up wanting to keep her son under her arm his entire life. Conservative Myra lives the typical suburban mom life-style, complete with the cheating husband, and the perfect household.

Each sister has a son who is like the other--opposite of the parent. It is like the sons were born to the wrong sister or switched at birth even though they are at least fifteen years apart in age. Each sister stays with her morals throughout the decades of the story and ends up helping each other in the end after a life full of hatred. Myra keeps her radical ideas and tries to blow up her sister's abortion clinic, however does not want to see her sister parish because of her life desicions and beliefs. While reading this play I began to think about my relationship with my brother and how for the longest time we would fight and not get along, as Myra and Myrna in the Mineola Twins. Overall the play was good, and talked about some intense issues. For example; being gay, family clinics, cheating husbands, and then the love between sisters. I would re-read this play just for the memorizing content and the laughs it gave, and recommends it to anyone who enjoys this type of play.