The Heidi Chronicles
Written by Wendy Wasserstein
Produced by David Danino
Directed by Frank Krueger
October 12th - October 29th 2006
Cast
Philip Asta, Talya Erdy, Heidi Favia, Alex Flipse, Maya Gilbert, Jennifer
Hasty, Cristin Klein and Jamie Robbins.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Tony Award, the New York Drama Critics
Circle Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award,
the Hull-Warriner Award and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. A significant
and celebrated play, which was first presented by Off-Broadway's Playwrights
Horizons and went on to become a long-run Broadway success.
Comprised of a series of interrelated scenes, the play traces the coming
of age of Heidi Holland, a successful art historian, as she tries to
find her bearings in a rapidly changing world. Gradually distancing
herself from her friends, she watches them move from the idealism and
political radicalism of their college years through militant feminism
and, eventually, back to the materialism that they had sought to reject
in the first place. Heidi's own path to maturity involves an affair
with the glib, arrogant Scoop Rosenbaum, a womanizing lawyer/publisher
who eventually marries for money and position; a deeper but even more
troubling relationship with a charming, witty young pediatrician, Peter
Patrone, who turns out to be gay; and increasingly disturbing contacts
with the other women, now much changed, who were a part of her childhood
and college years. Eventually Heidi comes to accept the fact that liberation
can be achieved only if one is true to oneself, with goals that come
out of need rather than circumstance. As the play ends she is still
"alone," but having adopted an orphaned baby, it is clear
that she has begun to find a sense of fulfillment and continuity that
may well continue to elude the others of her anxious, self-centered
generation.