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...such surface judgments mask the intensity within Wasserstein, the vision that spawned her new hit Broadway play, The Heidi Chronicles. "I wrote this play because I had this image of a woman standing up at a women's meeting saying, 'I've never been so unhappy in my life,' " Wasserstein explains. "Talking to friends, I knew there was this feeling around, in me and in others, and I thought it should be expressed theatrically. But it wasn't. The more angry it made me that these feelings weren't being expressed, the more anger I put into that play...
...Wasserstein is far too deft a satirist, and far too gentle a person, to compose a screed. Instead, with subtlety and humor in The Heidi Chronicles, she has written a memorable elegy for her own lost generation. Heidi tells the story of a slightly introverted art historian, a fellow traveler in the women's movement, who clings to her values long after her more committed friends switch allegiance from communes to consuming. At the pivotal moment in the play's second act, Heidi (played by Joan Allen) stands behind a lectern on a bare stage, giving a luncheon speech...
...HEIDI CHRONICLES...
...unconscious cartoon of feminist dialectic. Two men stay close to the title character through the years: a pediatrician who is handsome, earnest, dedicated, kind, politically correct from a left-wing perspective and irreversibly gay, and a heterosexual who is grasping, impatient, domineering, shallow, as undependable as quicksilver and, for Heidi, sexually irresistible. This is the there-are-no-men lament reduced to a greeting card. The saving grace is Joan Allen in the title role. Winner of a Tony Award last year in Burn This, Allen becomes a strong contender to repeat with a performance that displays much the same...
...total team effort powered Harvard, and a few records fell in the process. Co-Captain Beth Chandler's 10 rebounds gave her 236 for the season, breaking the record of 231 rebounds established by Wendy Joseph '85 in 1984. With 11 assists last night, Heidi Kosh set a new record for single-season assists, eclipsing the old record of 128 set by Barbarann Keffer '88 in 1985. Kosh, a junior point guard, now has 139 assists this year...