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Uncommon Women And Others

by Wendy Wasserstein
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Overview

Comprised of a collage of interrelated scenes, the action begins with a reunion, six years after graduation, of five close friends and classmates at Mount Holyoke College. They compare notes on their activities since leaving school and then, in a series of flashbacks, we see them in their college days and learn of the events, some funny, some touching, some bitingly cynical, that helped to shape them. Each of the group is a distinct individual, and it is their varying reaction to the staid, sheltered and often anachronistic university environment (with its undercurrent of sometimes darker personal desires and conclusions) gives the play its special meaning for today's young women as they go forth into the changing and often disquieting world that awaits them after graduation.

Synopsis

Comprised of a collage of interrelated scenes, the action begins with a reunion, six years after graduation, of five close friends and classmates at Mount Holyoke College. They compare notes on their activities since leaving school and then, in a series of flashbacks, we see them in their college days and learn of the events, some funny, some touching, some bitingly cynical, that helped to shape them. Each of the group is a distinct individual, and it is their varying reaction to the staid, sheltered and often anachronistic university environment (with its undercurrent of sometimes darker personal desires and conclusions) gives the play its special meaning for today's young women as they go forth into the changing and often disquieting world that awaits them after graduation.

Cue Magazine

...hilarious, touching, witty, insightful, and a lot of other nice things.

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Cue Magazine

...hilarious, touching, witty, insightful, and a lot of other nice things.

New Yorker

...funny, ironic, and affectionate comedy...Miss Wasserstein is an uncommon young woman if ever there was one.

NY Post

...the real triumph of UNCOMMON WOMEN is that you leave the theatre caring deeply about its characters.

Book Details

Published
June 1, 1999
Publisher
Dramatists Play Service, Incorporated
Pages
62
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780822211921

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