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  1. Nov 21, 2023 · The 1988 Wendy Wasserstein play The Heidi Chronicles is a well-known play that won several major awards at its debut, including the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1989. The play follows baby boomer ...

  2. Aug 5, 2020 · Heidi Holland, its protagonist, is the prototype for all the Carrie Bradshaws and Bridget Joneses who would follow in novels, films, and plays. The Heidi Chronicles is both the defining play of Wasserstein’s art and for the generation it celebrates and criticizes. The Heidi Chronicles and all of Wasserstein’s work, as she has freely admit ...

  3. Heidi Holland: Jennifer NelsonAct II, Scene iv"The Heidi Chronicles" by Wendy Wasserstein

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  4. Jan 16, 2024 · Monologue: The Heidi Chronicles by Wendy Wasserstein

    • 1 min
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    • Brittany Vallely
  5. Plot. Act One. The year is 1989, and Heidi Holland, a renowned art historian specializing in women’s art, is teaching a class at Columbia University. Suddenly, we flashback to 1965, where we see Heidi 24 years earlier at a high school dance with her best friend, Susan. Heidi is shy and demure, while Susan is loud and enthusiastic, pushing her ...

  6. Wendy Wasserstein’s play The Heidi Chronicles first opened Off-Broadway with Playwrights Horizons in 1988, transferring to Broadway for a successful run in 1989.The play follows Heidi Holland from the ages of 16 to 40 as she explores her desires for her own life, inspired by the liberation of feminism, but tempered by gendered expectations in a patriarchal society.

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  8. Synopsis. The Heidi Chronicles follows an intelligent young woman, Heidi Holland, and her friends as they grow from insecure high school students into fully established adults. The group navigate careers, friendships, and lovers as they make their way through the second-wave feminist movement of the 1960s through the 1980s, questioning its ...

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