The Heidi Chronicles

Heidi Chronicles, The

    Author: Wendy Wasserstein

    First Performance: 1988, Seattle (workshop production); 1988, New York

    Published: 1990

    Genre: Com. in 2 acts

    Setting: New York, 1977–89; Chicago, 1965, 1974; Manchester, New Hampshire, 1968; Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1970

    Cast: 7m, 12f

1989: Heidi Holland lectures on neglected women painters at Columbia University, New York. 1965: Heidi meets clever and charming Peter Padrone at a high-school dance. 1968: Heidi comes to New Hampshire to canvass on behalf of Eugene McCarthy and is seduced by charismatic but arrogant Scoop Rosenbaum. 1970: Heidi attends a feminist group in Ann Arbor and admits that she is in the thrall of Scoop while recognizing that Peter can offer her more. 1974: Heidi pickets the Chicago Art Institute for exhibiting so few women artists. Peter, now...

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