The Heidi chronicles and other plays / Wendy Wasserstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wasserstein, Wendy.

Contributor:

Bishop, André.

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American drama.

Women--Drama.

Women.

Genre:

Drama.

Scripts (documents)

Plays (performing arts compositions)

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xi pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 249 pages, 9 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

[First Vintage Books edition].

Other Title:

Heidi Chronicles, Uncommon Women and Others & Isn't it Romantic

Place of Publication:

New York : Vintage Books, 1991.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Uncommon women and others

Isn't it romantic

The Heidi chronicles.

Notes:

"First Vintage Books Edition June 1991."

"Originally published in hardcover by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, in 1990."

Foreword by André Bishop (p. ix-xi).

"'Uncommon Women and Others' was presented by The Phoenix Theatre at the Marymount Manhattan Theatre, in New York City, on November 21, 1977."

"'Isn't It Romantic' was presented by Playwrights Horizons, in New York City, December 15, 1983."

"'The Heidi Chronicles' was first produced April 6, 1988, in workshop by The Seattle Repertory Theatre (in association with Playwrights Horizons). It was then presented by Playwrights Horizons in New York City, on December 12, 1988."

Publisher's advertisements: [1] leaf at end.

"Cover photograph by Peter Cunningham."

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy has marginal marks.

ISBN:

0679734996

9780679734994

OCLC:

22911423

Publisher Number:

99942507864

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