Since the 1960s Heidi Holland wants and works to attain a career as a successful art historian. The play's main themes deal with the changing role of women from 60s on, describing both Heidi's dedicated feminism and, a three decades later, her sense of betrayal by the inadequacy of the women's movement. Though most of the characters are women, there are two important male characters; Peter Patrone, a gay pediatrician who is Heidi's best friend, and Scoop Rosenbaum, a magazine editor who marries and has many affairs. He's the one Heidi has loved but their relationship was not to be because Scoop neither respected nor accepted a woman's right to a career and her own way of thinking.The play was later made into a movie, starring Tom Hulce and Jamie Lee Curtis.

the honesty of the author's insight into women who have lived through those decades.

Wendy Wasserstein (1950-2006) was a Pulizer and Tony award winning American playwright and teacher at Cornell University.

it is true to life. This could have been any woman's story who lived in those years and fought for women's rights.

I listened to this play on two audio CDs read by very competent actors. It was next best thing to seeing it on stage.

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