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Article: Theater; The Life and Loves of `Heidi'; On Broadway, Wasserstein's Baby Boomer `Chronicles'
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- The Washington Post
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- March 14, 1989
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Heidi Holland, the appealing heroine of "The Heidi Chronicles,"
is a keeper of the feminist faith who discovers that sometime when
she wasn't looking, the church was dismantled right under her nose.
In 11 scenes, playwright Wendy Wasserstein takes her from a
self-conscious adolescence in 1965 to single-parenthood in 1989. As
much as this observant play is Heidi's story, it is also the account
of Wasserstein's generation-those who came to be known as the baby
boomers. The play has the powerful scent of autobiography, but I
suspect a good number of people are going to find reflections of
themselves and their own peregrinations in Heidi's odyssey.
An off-Broadway hit earlier this season, ...