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...Wasserstein is loathe to be anything but familiar. Much has been made of her vulnerability and the charm that comes straight out of her work. Part of it is her affection for honesty bordering on self-deprecation, part of it is a healthy modesty about the scope of her work. Mostly Wasserstein offers a lot of witty warmth. Questions she finds irrelevant to her unassuming style, like those asking her to speak as an artiste, she merely deflects with a joke...
...current speaking tour, "A Life in the Theatre," she focusses a great deal on her family as artistic inspiration. Family was the first question raised by Rachel B. Tiven '97, who interviewed the playwright on stage for the first segment of the program. Wasserstein's plays revolve around her family. "Miami" describes a Jewish family vacationing in Miami Beach, and "The Sisters Rosensweig" is based loosely on Wendy and her siblings...
...explanation for all the Jewish women is simple. Wasserstein is Jewish. She intends no grand message by her portraits, she is simply writing about what she knows...
...Usually plays develop from things that have been bothering me for a while." "Isn't It Romantic" derived its themes from a friend's marriage, nothing more. When Tiven asked what message Ms. Wasserstein had for Jewish women, Wendy stiffened. There was no answer. "Aerobics," she suggested to a roar of approval from the audience. "And its never too early to start...
Offers have been coming in for TV and Cable movies to supplement her fairly steady diet of essays and short plays for magazines such as The New Yorker. Wasserstein also keeps a busy international schedule comprising speaking engagements in London, travel writing opportunities, and even a Japanese musical adaptation of "The Sisters Rosensweig." Most recently Ted Turner produced a film adaptation of "The Heidi Chronicles" for TNT starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Tom Hulce, for which Wasserman wrote the screenplay...