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color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">BEREA, OH – The Department of Theatre and
Dance at Baldwin Wallace University presents a staged reading of <span style="mso-bidi-font-style:italic">Wendy Wasserstein</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">’s The Heidi Chronicles</i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style:italic">, directed
by Martin Friedman.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:
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<div style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;
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mso-themecolor:text1;background:white">Written by Wasserstein in 1988, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">The Heidi Chronicles</i> opened off-Broadway
the same year and moved to Broadway in 1989 where it ran for 622 performances.
In 1989 it also won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;
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</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;
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mso-themecolor:text1;background:white">The play follows Heidi Holland from high
school in the 1960s to her career as a successful </span><a href="https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FArt_history&data=02%7C01%7Cbkessler18%40bw.edu%7Ccbfe700614774b6973e508d7379a4069%7C3a9a104352cb404ebc8dcb2b5a92d3bc%7C1%7C0%7C637039007954355291&sdata=hyyyr0NqspV97X4wuTlPQlWfGcxrzk6QmPB%2BVN6kHN8%3D&reserved=0" title="Original URL:
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twenty years later. The play's main themes deal with the changing role of women
during this time period, describing both Heidi's ardent </span><a href="https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFeminism&data=02%7C01%7Cbkessler18%40bw.edu%7Ccbfe700614774b6973e508d7379a4069%7C3a9a104352cb404ebc8dcb2b5a92d3bc%7C1%7C0%7C637039007954365283&sdata=ZcT1E1k82QE3j6QN8ZKgvHlt0m0td5lAKQsO21fLI4c%3D&reserved=0" title="Feminism"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:
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major-latin;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;background:white"> during the
1970s and her eventual sense of betrayal during the 1980s. Though most of the
characters are women, there are two important male characters; Peter Patrone,
a </span><a href="https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FGay&data=02%7C01%7Cbkessler18%40bw.edu%7Ccbfe700614774b6973e508d7379a4069%7C3a9a104352cb404ebc8dcb2b5a92d3bc%7C1%7C0%7C637039007954365283&sdata=C5ETo1lojd3dxX%2FEx%2F1sKM5HrEo4FLS7gexhXpU10Uc%3D&reserved=0" title="Gay"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:
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mso-themecolor:text1;background:white;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">pediatrician</span></a><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:major-latin;color:black;
mso-themecolor:text1;background:white"> who is arguably Heidi's best
friend, and Scoop Rosenbaum, a magazine editor who marries and has many
affairs, and with whom Heidi has a tense friendship.</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;
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mso-themecolor:text1;background:white">The Heidi Chronicles was nominated for
six Tony Awards and won for Best Actor and Best Play of in 1989. </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:major-latin;color:black;
mso-themecolor:text1">Major themes in this groundbreaking, Pulitzer Prize &
Tony Award-winning play include feminism, the roles of men and women in
society, the shifting American political and social landscape, and the
redefinition of motherhood.</span></div>
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Seminary St, Berea, OH 44017</span></div><div><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:
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