The Heidi chronicles and other plays - Wendy Wasserstein

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.