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FIFTEEN YEARS ago, when women at Mount Holyoke College learned to curtsy as well as to read Baudelaire, every graduating class was acutely aware of its uncommon talents and training, and seniors felt they had to choose missions in life before graduation. Wendy Wasserstein's Uncommon Women and Others recreates that era with humor and even affection, but somewhat pedantically shows that the transition between discovering one's talents and choosing one's mission is tenuous at best...
...humor, but short on tension and meaning. Director Steve Drury maintains a quick pace by emphasizing punchy one-liners and alternating settings, but it is a peculiar quickness without tension. The audience merely waits from one witty remark to the next without expecting or hoping for any particular action. Wasserstein's views come across, but not forcefully, and they seem less relevant to life at Harvard than they ought...
...home-grown dramatic programs are going to be the equal of its British imports-but when? After watching public television's adaptation of three John Cheever stories, one is tempted to despair. Here, it seems, PBS had a sure shot. The scripts are by outstanding playwrights: Wendy Wasserstein (Uncommon Women and Others), A.R. Gurney...
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Drama is not a photographic art. Holding the mirror up to nature has virtually nothing to do with producing mirror images. Unfortunately, Wendy Wasserstein seems to have written her first play with a Polaroid...