Really loved the female-based narrative and the discussions the characters have that women have in real life about perceived timelines and "can they have it all." For a play that came out in 1988, it was surprisingly open to the gay narrative, though there was a joke that was supposed to be a double-entendre alluding to the gay character but in actuality connected homosexuality to pedophilia - hence not 5 stars.

The monologue in 2.4 is great but the rest was OK.

I read this book on a (harrowing) car ride to and from Vermont. It's a quick play, but funny and insightful

A look into a life of a feminist. Heidi is my new inspiration for off hand and witty remarks.

Wowowow, so funny. Moved so quickly. Wendy is a genius.

Follows the life of Heidi over the course of her womanhood, starting in the 60’s when she and the rest of her college-aged gal pals are listening to the Beatles, taking birth control, and burning their bras to the 80’s where she is a successful art historian and professor at Columbia who pursued her career first and foremost over starting a family, prompting insecurity about the things she gave up in order to achieve what she got. This is perfectly juxtaposed by the love of her life Scoop, whom she didn’t marry because of her career. He marries a girl for money, starts a family, and continually seeks happiness through affairs. Also, there’s Heidi’s gay best friend Peter, whom she continually puts on the back burner who is a gay successful pediatrician living in NYC in the midst of the AIDS crisis.

When it’s all said and done, the point is, if you are the one making the decision for your life, it is a life well-lived. You make your own rules and boomers, who we all make fun of daily, led the charge for gender and sexual liberation.

a nice trip down memory lane-many reads

book club selection

My first brush with this play was also my professional acting debut. I had been in a number of local productions, but this was my first taste of regional theatre. Reading it again after a number of years, I'm surprised by how urgent all the gender issues still are. That's depressing on the one hand, but means that we have to give the hat tip to Wendy on the other hand. And keep soldiering on.

Not for me.

men rely on first impression, you look bored must be bright, women march only, to become irrelevant in MT, I didn’t say anything why the edit, 1 vs love, idealist wonder what do when grow up, all in this together.

Literally so good this book truly ATE

I read this originally out of a copy of the collection that everyone seems to have, which I don't any more. I read it more than once, but it was definitely more than ten years ago.