HEIDI CHRONICLES, THE

by Wasserstein, Wendy

Tracing the coming of age of Heidi Holland from her student days in the 1960’s to her successful career as an art historian in the late 1980’s, the play is a moving examination of the progress of a generation in a rapidly changing world, a time when the status of women underwent profound and sometimes unsettling changes. Through the course of events, Heidi gradually distances herself from her friends as she watches them move from the idealism and political radicalism of their college years through militant feminism, and, eventually, back to the materialism which they had sought to reject in the first place. Winner of nearly every major American drama award including the Pulitzer Prize, The Heidi Chronicles is funny, touching and written with a rare grace and sensitivity, a play sure to captivate audiences everywhere.