Wendy Wasserstein

Third was the last play written by Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein. This politically charged play is an autobiographical piece, in which Wasserstein explores her own dealings with being accused of plagiarism. A strong-advocate of feminism yet also a conservative playwright, this play also challenges both of Wasserstein’s core beliefs she’s held in her life. The play takes place at a small New England college during one academic year. It focuses on the life of a

Pirandellian Dark Comedy in Wendy Wasserstein 's The Heidi Chronicles The main aim of this paper is to study Wendy Wasserstein 's The Heidi Chronicles (1988) as a dark comedy in the light of Pirandello 's definition of dark comedy. The line between tragedy and comedy is often thin and at times barely discernable. Certain playwrights have a gift for blurring this line, which allows audiences to receive their message without often knowing if they should be laughing at what appears to be a

Heidi 's tragic side is fully revealed in this entire speech where humor and drama are perfectly blended to emphasize her moment of realization. She becomes a diminished character who no longer knows who she is and decides to leave New York to sort out her future. Like a true dark comedy protagonist, she is vulnerable and has lost control. She realizes her downfalls and the comedy lies in the superiority felt by the spectator due to "man 's delight in man 's inhumanity to man" (Capp 220).

     “The Heidi Chronicles” by Wendy Wasserstein kept my interest so much that I could not put it down until I was to the last page. I liked how the issue of sexuality played a role along with the issue of feminist goals in this play. I believe they complimented one another in that both groups strive for equal right among the majority. For example when Peter starts to march with the other women from the Art Institute. It shows that he is standing for a cause the effects another

“Tender Offer” is a short play written by Wendy Wasserstein. This play is about a busy father and his nine-year old daughter having a quality talk and also using that time to spend some quality time with each other. The settings of the play was in dance studio where the father, Paul, picked up his daughter, Lisa. Also it is where Lisa takes ballet lessons. In this play, Wasserstein showed an example of a father trying to balance his work and doing his duties as a father, but failed and eventually

The drama “Tender Offer” written by Wendy Wasserstein opens with a nine-year-old girl, Lisa, alone in a dance studio when her father, Paul, walks in. Paul starts asking Lisa about how the play went and explains to her why he was late. Paul and Lisa have a very peculiar relationship between each other. Lisa is not afraid to ask any type of question no matter how silly or serious it may be. She hints at her frustration with her father never being there for her using passive aggressive questions. The

interesting phrase used in Suzanne Berger’s “The Meal” to describe the state of the children. Berger’s “The Meal” along with Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” and Wendy Wasserstein’s Workout use carefully selected words, tone and imagery to portray a pertinent theme of deception in appearances. Suzanne Berger, Alice Walker, and Wendy Wasserstein all have some sort of family relationship and the woman of the family seems to bear the troubles and struggle. Throughout their literary works these problems

The Non-Sympathetic Character of Byelinkov in The Man in a Case    It is hard to sympathize with a person who has a complete lack of happiness in their life.  In Wendy Wasserstein's The Man in a Case, Byelinkov lives a dull, uneventful life, which only he is content with.  He performs the exact same routine every day and has rendered this routine almost his entire life.  Byelinkov's tedious life is expressed throughout the play by way of comments made to Varinka, as well as through his daily

that was never hers to call home anyways. She knew remembering that marvelous land of magic and mayhem was almost as fruitless as remembering him and all he had taught her there. She knew dreaming about him would only lead to heartbreak. After all, Wendy Darling wasn’t a little girl anymore. She hadn’t been thirteen for quite some time, and though her father would never say it to her face, a girl of age nineteen had no business still believing in made up stories. The good doctor back home convinced

of all hope. Their whole system had officially ended. In Peter Pan a significant symbol is that of the kiss and thimble. Wendy gives Peter a “kiss”, which is actually a thimble, out of her newfound affection for him. Peter, however, doesn’t realize the significance of it, and naturally gives her an acorn in return. This act of giving “kisses” is only seen as significant to Wendy at the time. Later, when the acorn saves Wendy’s life, Peter grasps the importance of it. This exchanging of “kisses” is