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...Wendy Wasserstein...
...Wendy Wasserstein's play portrays the emotional milestones of Heidi Holland, a self-proclaimed "informed observer" of life, and links them with the chief social issues and trends of her time. The play begins with Heidi (Janine Poreba) alone on a darkened stage, warmly personalizing her lecture on women in art. Her reminiscences of insecurity and indecision trigger the events of the play, literally inviting the audience to relate to her story on a personal level...
...Heidi Chronicles. By Wendy Wasserstein. Directed by Carolyn Rendell. Produced by Monica Salamon and Lori Smith. Leverett Old Library, 8 p.m. $4 for students; $3 for Leverett residents...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Summer Theater presentation of the play has some nagging problems, but is worth seeing and guaranteed to make you laugh. Wasserstein manages to balance the different aspects of the work very well. She doesn't pull punches with her Jewish mother jokes, but she avoids the kind of vicious self hatred bordering on anti-Semitism that afflicts some Jewish comedy. She also successfully walks the tightrope between family-bashing, man-hating feminism and family-centered, woman ignoring sexism...
...also problematic She's best when she's angry. The rest of the time, she's too listless and wispy to keep the audience really involved. Part of the problem her, but probably not all of it, is the difficult-to-play character of Janie as written by Wasserstein...