| by Wendy Wasserstein: Comprised of a series of interrelated scenes, the play
traces the coming of age of Heidi Holland, a successful art historian, as she tries to find her bearings in a rapidly
changing world. Gradually distancing herself from her friends, she watches them move from the idealism and political
radicalism of their college years through the militant feminism and, eventually, back to the materialism that they had
sought to reject in the first place. Heidi's own path to maturity involves an affair with the glib, arrogant Scoop
Rosenbaum, a womanizing lawyer/publisher who eventually marries for money and position; a deeper but even more troubling
relationship with a charming, witty young pediatrician, Peter Patrone, who turns out to be gay; and increasingly disturbing
contacts with other women, now much changed, who were a part of her childhood and college years. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Tony Away, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Outer
Critics Circle Award the Drama Desk Award, the Hull-Warriner Award and The Susan Smith Award. A significant and celebrated
play. "witty, hilarious…not just a funny play but a wise one..: New York Daily News. |
