The graduating seniors of a Seven Sisters college, trying to decide
whether to pattern themselves after Katharine Hepburn or Emily
Dickinson. Two young women besieged by the demands of mothers, lovers,
and careers--not to mention a highly persistent telephone answering
machine--as they struggle to have it all. A brilliant feminist art
historian trying to keep her bearings and her sense of humor on the
elevator ride from the radical sixties to the heartless eighties.
Wendy Wasserstein's characters are so funny, so many-sided, and so
real that we seem to know them from their Scene One entrances, though
the places they go are invariably surprising. And these three
plays--Uncommon Women and Others, Isn't It Romantic, and the
Pulitzer Prize-winning The Heidi Chronicles--manage to engage us
heart, mind, and soul on such a deep and lasting level that they are
already recognized as classics of the modern theater.