The Heidi Chronicles | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 1 page of analysis & critique of The Heidi Chronicles.

The Heidi Chronicles | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 1 page of analysis & critique of The Heidi Chronicles.
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SOURCE: A review of The Heidi Chronicles, and Other Plays, in Library Journal, Vol. 115, No. 8, May 1, 1990, p. 89.

In the following review, Luddy favorably assesses The Heidi Chronicles, and Other Plays.

Wasserstein has made the cultural territory of the American experience since the 1960s her own. She is its most articulate theatrical chronicler. This collection of her recent work, Uncommon Women and Others, Isn't It Romantic, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Heidi Chronicles, traces that experience through three decades of changing styles, mores, life objectives, and intellectual challenges. She examines her characters and their times with great good humor, complexity, depth of feeling, and a firm refusal to accept trite and easy images. She writes the truth about people and their lives without blinking. She teaches us all what it was like to live through a period of great turmoil and confusion.

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