The Heidi Chronicles (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Wendy Wasserstein
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Social morality
- Time of Work: 1965-1989
- Genres: Social realism, Drama, Sketch
- Subjects: 1960’s, 1970’s, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., Self-discovery, United States or Americans, Mothers, Parents and children, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Gender roles, New York City, Friendship, Social life, Chicago, 1980’s, Feminism, Women’s issues, Women, Idealism, Lifestyles, Popular culture, Women’s movement, Career women
- Locales: New York, NY, Chicago, IL, Ann Arbor, MI, Manchester, NH
Places Discussed
*Columbia University. Ivy League university in New York City in a lecture hall in which the prologue to this play is set. Now a successful art historian, Heidi Holland is surprised to find herself lecturing on woman painters in so august an academic setting. Her very presence in this lecture hall proves that she has come a long way from her turbulent life in the 1960’s and 1970’s to have a meaningful career and still be a woman who has everything.
Church basement. Place in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where Heidi and other women meet to discuss women’s...
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