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[THEATER REVIEW] HEIDI CHRONICLES at BTF
8.20.06
BERKSHIRE THEATRE FESTIVAL
Main Stage
THE HEIDI CHRONICLES
by Wendy Wasserstein
Directed by Maria Mileaf
Through September 2
Starring Kate Jennings Grant as Heidi Holland
Tom Story as Peter Patrone
Lynn Hawley as Susan Johnston
Scott Lowell as Scoop Rosenbaum
review by SETH ROGOVOY, critic-at-large, Berkshire Living magazine
(Stockbridge, Mass., August 18, 2006) -- Wendy Wasserstein's baby-boom generational epic, THE HEIDI CHRONICLES, is being given a loving, well-acted staging at the Berkshire Theatre Festival through September 2, when it brings the curtain down on the summer season.
The play, in its own way a romantic comedy (without too much romance), traces the arc of Heidi Holland, a would-be feminist baby boomer who struggles with personal actualization while the stormy forces of social and political change rock her generation from the 1950s through the early 1990s.
Kate Jennings Grant gives a note-perfect performance of Heidi Holland's maturation from a '50s bobby-sox bopper through a Seven Sisters collegiate type through her struggle in adulthood to find herself through the turmoil of radical feminism, gay liberation, '70s Me-ism, '80s yuppiehood -- all of which she avoids on her way toward "finding herself."
Terrific performances are also turned in by Scott Lowell as Scoop Rosenbaum, the narcissistic magazine editor (impossible to believe there could be such a person ;-), and especially Tom Story as Peter Patrone, the gay pediatrician and Heidi's one true friend throughout her life.
If the play seems somewhat dated and the arc of these people's lives somewhat improbably elongated, it still boasts vivid characterizations and smart writing, both of which were undoubtedly reponsible for garnering the late Wasserstein her Pulitzer Prize for the drama.
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