The Heidi Chronicles
Title | The Heidi Chronicles PDF eBook |
Author | Wendy Wasserstein |
Publisher | Dramatists Play Service, Inc. |
Pages | 92 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780822205104 |
Traces the coming of age of Heidi Holland, a successful art historian, as she tries to find her bearings in a rapidly changing world.
The Heidi Chronicles and Other Plays
Title | The Heidi Chronicles and Other Plays PDF eBook |
Author | Wendy Wasserstein |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN |
The graduating seniors of a Seven Sisters college, trying to decide whether to pattern themselves after Katharine Hepburn or Emily Dickinson. Two young women besieged by the demands of mothers, lovers, and careers--not to mention a highly persistent telephone answering machine--as they struggle to have it all. A brilliant feminist art historian trying to keep her bearings and her sense of humor on the elevator ride from the radical sixties to the heartless eighties. Wendy Wasserstein's characters are so funny, so many-sided, and so "real" that we seem to know them from their Scene One entrances, though the places they go are invariably surprising. And these three plays--"Uncommon Women and Others," "Isn't It Romantic," and the Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Heidi" "Chronicles"--manage to engage us heart, mind, and soul on such a deep and lasting level that they are already recognized as classics of the modern theater.
The Heidi Chronicles
Title | The Heidi Chronicles PDF eBook |
Author | Wendy Wasserstein |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Speech |
ISBN |
Isn't it Romantic
Title | Isn't it Romantic PDF eBook |
Author | Wendy Wasserstein |
Publisher | Dramatists Play Service Inc |
Pages | 68 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780822205777 |
THE STORY: The play deals with the post-college careers (and dilemmas) of two former classmates, a short, slightly plump would-be writer named Janie Blumberg, and her tall, thin gorgeous WASP friend, Harriet Cornwall. Both are struggling to escape
Seven One-act Plays
Title | Seven One-act Plays PDF eBook |
Author | Wendy Wasserstein |
Publisher | Dramatists Play Service, Inc. |
Pages | 84 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780822217053 |
THE STORIES: In BETTE AND ME, the author and the legendary Bette Midler get their hair done, try on makeup, and row a boat on the Hudson River. They finally end up at Radio City Music Hall, where Wendy rises from the orchestra pit on a half-shell w
The Heidi Chronicles
Title | The Heidi Chronicles PDF eBook |
Author | Wendy Wasserstein |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 1991-07-02 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780679734994 |
The graduating seniors of a Seven Sisters college, trying to decide whether to pattern themselves after Katharine Hepburn or Emily Dickinson. Two young women besieged by the demands of mothers, lovers, and careers—not to mention a highly persistent telephone answering machine—as they struggle to have it all. A brilliant feminist art historian trying to keep her bearings and her sense of humor on the elevator ride from the radical sixties to the heartless eighties. Wendy Wasserstein's characters are so funny, so many-sided, and so real that we seem to know them from their Scene One entrances, though the places they go are invariably surprising. And these three plays—Uncommon Women and Others, Isn't It Romantic, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Heidi Chronicles—manage to engage us heart, mind, and soul on such a deep and lasting level that they are already recognized as classics of the modern theater.
Reading the Plays of Wendy Wasserstein
Title | Reading the Plays of Wendy Wasserstein PDF eBook |
Author | Jan Balakian |
Publisher | Hal Leonard Corporation |
Pages | 259 |
Release | 2010-01-01 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1557837252 |
(Applause Books). Playwright Wendy Wasserstein is, above all, a social historian. Her plays balance drama and comedy to address such issues as social class and Jewish-American identity. Most notably, however, WassersteinOs work explores the lives and struggles of women. Although she never wanted to be called a feminist playwright, her plays ask whether women can have both satisfying careers and families, concluding that even well-educated women have not yet achieved parity with men. In Reading the Plays of Wendy Wasserstein, author Jan Balakian places WassersteinOs seven major plays in a historical context. Close readings of each play are interwoven with discussion of such topics as the Gilded Age (Old Money), life at a womenOs college in the early 1970s (Uncommon Women and Others), challenges to liberal assumptions (Third), and the rise and fall of feminism (The Heidi Chronicles, winner of the Pulitzer Prize). Drawing on the recently established Wasserstein archives at Mount Holyoke College, this book delves into primary sources such as commencement speeches and popular songs and features unpublished handwritten pages from the playwrightOs notebooks. Lending further insight into WassersteinOs concerns are BalakianOs own interviews with the playwright herself and conversations with WassersteinOs friends, including playwright Christopher Durang, director Dan Sullivan, and playwright and director Emily Mann. Thoroughly researched, accessible, and rich in detail, Reading the Plays of Wendy Wasserstein will provide students, teachers, theatergoers, and other readers with fresh perspective on the work of one of AmericaOs great contemporary playwrights.