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Wasserstein compares the gathering momentum of her theatrical career to the children's story The Little Engine That Could. Heidi was written in 1987 after a frustrating period that included a musical that never made it out of workshop readings and a filmscript for Steven Spielberg that was shelved. Then, as now, she was living in a Greenwich Village apartment, with no formal attachments aside from a cat named Ginger. Relentlessly social, Wasserstein has built a life revolving around an intricate network of friendships, many with other playwrights. But writing Heidi represented, in part, an acknowledgment that Wasserstein, like...
...style of The Clockwork Testament should be familiar to all those who read A Clockwork Orange fast, sometimes elliptical, with a rich vocabulary and interesting experiments in portmanteau. But sometimes the prose, which includes filmscript-writing and traceries of stream of consciousness, becomes artificially lofty and burdensome. One chapter, a transcript of Enderby's appearance on the late-night Sperr Lansing Show, is a failed satire of the transcriber's inadequacy, with misspellings like ecommunionicle, kwelled, teetotal Aryan, and Alice in Windowland. And the final chapter, some sort of object-lesson conducted from the future by Educational Time Trips...
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