PDF Female Monologues About Cancer From Plays ; Cgeprginia Heller McAlpin. Among these were composer William Finn, playwright Terrence McNally, critic Frank Rich, playwright Christopher Durang, director James Lapine and LCT artistic director Andre Bishop. She received the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1989 for her play The Heidi Chronicles . The Heidi Chronicles | Encyclopedia.com (Applause Books). Call Number: PR6053.H786 M33 1996 and ebook, Call Number: PR6053.H786 S47 2002 and ebook, Call Number: PS3561.E42518 S58 1996 and ebook, Call Number: PS3564.O795 R85 2010 and ebook, Call Number: PS3564.O795 S94 2017 and ebook, Call Number: PS3572.O294 A6 1996 and ebook, Call Number: PS3572.O294 H88 1998 and ebook, Caryl Churchill; Bloomsbury Publishing Staff; Chris Megson (Contribution by); Jenny Stevens (Contribution by), Crumbs from the Table of Joy and Other Plays, Paula Vogel; David Savran (Introduction by), https://researchguides.scc.losrios.edu/plays. Solo! The audience is also disconcerted, as we realize that life has given Heidi many experiences but has not made her happy. Actresses looking for short pieces to work on in class or to use for auditions need look no further. [7], Wasserstein's first production of note was Uncommon Women and Others (her graduate thesis at Yale), a play which reflected her experiences as a student at, and an alumna of, Mount Holyoke College. The year is 1968, and the arrogant and assertive Scoop wins Heidi's attention (and her virginity) after a brief but lively conversation. Wasserstein commented that her parents allowed her to go to Yale only because they were certain she would meet an eligible lawyer there, get married, and lead a conventional life as a wife and mother. ". Born in 1950, Wasserstein lived through the contemporary feminist era in the United States, when much attention was paid to women's equality across society and culture. [2] Lola Wasserstein reportedly inspired some of her daughter's characters. Audition monologues from recent works by American playwrights. "Wendy Wasserstein: Her premature baby goes home", City University of New York, City College, Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections, http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/mountholyoke/mshm325_main.html, "Wendy Wasserstein, Playwright Who Dramatized the Progress of a Generation of Women, Is Dead at 55", "Wendy Wasserstein Dies at 55; Her Plays Spoke to a Generation", "Wendy Wasserstein Pulitzer-Prize Winning Playwright, to Speak", "At the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's Critics Institute 5Q4 Dan Sullivan", "Making Trouble: Three Generations of Funny Jewish Women", "Playwright Wendy Wasserstein to be remembered in Schwartz Center symposium", "The Newest Wasserstein Creation Comes Home", "Wendy Wasserstein Gets Spotlight in a New Biography", "Wasserstein World Premieres, 'Welcome to My Rash' and 'Third', Play DC Through Feb. 15", Audio: Wendy Wasserstein at the Key West Literary Seminar, 2005, Wasserstein biography at Jewish Women Encyclopedia, "Wendy Wasserstein, The Art of Theater No. Unregistered Cars On Private Property Maryland, Articles W
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