BEREA, OH – The Department of Theatre and
Dance at Baldwin Wallace University presents a staged reading of Wendy Wasserstein’s The Heidi Chronicles, directed
by Martin Friedman.
Written by Wasserstein in 1988, The Heidi Chronicles 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.
The play follows Heidi Holland from high
school in the 1960s to her career as a successful art
historian more than
twenty years later. The play's main themes deal with the changing role of women
during this time period, describing both Heidi's ardent feminism 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 gay pediatrician 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.
The Heidi Chronicles was nominated for
six Tony Awards and won for Best Actor and Best Play of in 1989. 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.
Friday/Saturday September 20-21, 2019 7:30pm
United Methodist Church of Berea Chapel, 170
Seminary St, Berea, OH 44017
For more information, contact: Department of
Theatre & Dance: