Uncommon Women and Others {video}
by Wendy Wasserstein
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An adaptation for television of the Phoenix Theatre's production of Wendy Wasserstein's play about five friends who hold a reunion seven years after their graduation from Mount Holyoke.Tags
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The best of the three Wasserstein plays in the collection I've been reading: the exploration of family relationships gives you a better sense of how anyone can possibly be like the absurd people in these stories, and some sympathy for all the faking and hiding and yearning they do. And the love relationships get closer to a real investigation of class privilege than anything else Wasserstein's given us. "Only rich kids know what upper middle class is."
Wasserstein's feminist anthem to the difficulties of accomplished women. A group of women meet at a restaurant to review their Mt. Holyoke days and their present lives. When Mt. Holyoke (read: privileged) women have this much trouble, just imagine the troubles of those who didn't manage to attend a seven-sisters school!
I couldn't really identify with this -- my college years were far different. Interesting characters, but nothing special.
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Wendy Wasserstein was born in Brooklyn, New York on October 18, 1950. She received an undergraduate degree from Mount Holyoke College, an M.A. at City College of New York and a M.F.A. at Yale University's School of Drama. A one-act play not only served as her M.F.A. thesis but became the basis for her successful full-length work, Uncommon Women show more and Others (1977). Her other plays include Isn't It Romantic, The Sisters Rosensweig, and Old Money. The Heidi Chronicles (1989) received numerous awards including the Pulitzer Prize, the Tony, the New York Drama Critics Circle, Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for most outstanding play by a woman, and the Hull-Warriner Award for the best play dealing with a controversial subject. She also wrote the screenplay for the 1998 film The Object of My Affection, the children's book Pamela's First Musical, a spoof of self-help literature entitled Sloth, a novel entitled Elements of Style, and two collections of personal essays entitled Bachelor Girls and Shiksa Goddess. She died of lymphoma on January 30, 2006 at the age of 55. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Great Performances: Uncommon Women... and Others (1979 | IMDb)
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