Critical Responses to The Heidi Chronicles
Media critics and theatre scholars have articulated a variety of opinions about this play and interpreted it through various lenses. To read some of their responses, click on the links to articles below (some may require an Appalachian State University Banner ID# to login).
Select articles about the play from scholarly journals and anthologies
Balakian, Jan. "'The Heidi Chronicles': The Big Chill of Feminism." South Atlantic Review. 60.2 (May 1995): 93-101. JSTOR: Appalachian State U Lib., Boone, NC. 5 Dec. 2005
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Becker, Becky K. "Women Who Choose: The Theme of Mothering in Selected Dramas." American Drama. 6.2 (1997): 43-57.
Douthit, Lue Morgan. "Reconsidering the Feminism of 'Heidi': A Look at the Comic Structure in The Heidi Chronicles." Text and Presentation. 14 (1993) 11-19.
Watermeier, Daniel J. "The Search for Self: Attachment, Loss, and Recovery in The Heidi Chronicles." Staging Difference: Cultural Pluralism in American Theatre and Drama. Ed. Marc Maufort. New York: Lang, 1995.
Select reviews of the original Broadway production (which focus mainly on the play, not the staging)
Austin, Gayle. "The Heidi Chronicles: Review." Theatre Journal. 42.1 (1990): 107-08. JSTOR: Appalachian State U Lib., Boone, NC. 5 Dec. 2005
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Gussow, Mel. "A Modern Day Heffalump in Search of Herself." New York Times. 12 December 1988. 9 February 2009 <http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?html_title=&tols_title=HEIDI%20CHRONICLES,%20THE%20(PLAY)&pdate=19881212&byline=By%20MEL%20GUSSOW&id=1077011432498>.
Richards, David. "The Life and Loves of 'Heidi': On Broadway, Wasserstein's Baby Boomer 'Chronicles'." The Washington Post. 14 March 1989. 9 February 2009 <http://www.lexisnexis.com/us/lnacademic/results/docview/docview.do?docLinkInd=true&risb=21_T5746021635&format=GNBFI&sort=DATE,A,H&startDocNo=1&resultsUrlKey=29_T5746020171&cisb=22_T5746020170&treeMax=true&treeWidth=0&csi=8075&docNo=14>.
Vineberg, Steve. "Desperately Seeking Heidi." The Threepenny Review. 38. (Summer 1989): 27. JSTOR: Appalachian State U Lib., Boone, NC. 5 Dec. 2005
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