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Uncommon Women and Others
Uncommon Women and Others
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Author: Wendy Wasserstein Publisher: Dramatists Play Service (cover may change) Format: Softcover # of Pages: 59 Pub. Date: 1999 Edition: Acting ISBN-10: 0822211920 ISBN-13: 9780822211921 Cast Size: 9 female
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About the Play:
Uncommon Women and Others has long been a favourite of acting
teachers for Female Monologues and Female/Female Scenes.
Uncommon Women and Others is a full-length comedic drama by
Wendy Wasserstein. Affecting, funny and perceptive, Uncommon Women and Others is
striking and exceptional first play of Wendy Wasserstein that delves into the lives, loves and
aspirations of a group of women who reunite seven years after graduating from a prestigious eastern women's
college and relive their senior year.
Uncommon Women and Others centers around the 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.
Uncommon Women and Others is the first last play written by noted
20th-century American playwright Wendy Wasserstein. It began as
her masters thesis in 1975, when she was a student at Yale University
and made its way to an off-Broadway theatre in 1977. It was presented
by New York's renowned Phoenix Theatre at the Marymount Manhattan
Theatre in New York, and then selected for the PBS "Theatre in
America" series on television. The play has become a favourite scene study vehicle in acting classes and workshops and has become a
popular choice for college
and community theatre productions.
Cast: 9 female
What people say:
"…funny, ironic, and
affectionate comedy…Miss Wasserstein is an uncommon young woman if
ever there was one ." — The New Yorker
"…the real triumph of
Uncommon Women is that you leave the theatre
caring deeply about its characters ." — New York
Post
"…hilarious, touching,
witty, insightful, and a lot of other nice things." — Cue
Magazine
About the Playwright:
Wendy Wasserstein (1950-2006) was an American playwright,
novelist, and an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell
University. She received the Tony Award for Best Play and the
Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1989 for her play, The Heidi
Chronicles, often touted as a precursor to the HBO television
series, Sex and the City. Over the course of her career,
spanning four decades, she wrote eleven plays and is one of those rare
playwrights whose work is performed regularly in schools and community
theater as well as commercial venues. She was admired both
for the warmth and the satirical cool of her writing; each of her
plays and books captures an essence of the time, makes us laugh, and
leaves us wiser.
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