By Wendy Wasserstein

Comprised of a series of interrelated scenes, The Heidi Chronicles traces the coming of age of Heidi Holland as she tries to find her bearings in a rapidly changing world. Gradually distancing herself from her friends, she watches them move from idealism and political radicalism of their college years through militant feminism and, eventually, back to the materialism they had sought to reject in the first place. Heidi comes to accept the fact that liberation can be achieved only if one is true to oneself. Funny, touching and written with rare grace and sensitivity, The Heidi Chronicles will bring memories of the activist sixties to the success-oriented eighties, including great music from all three decades.

Recommended for ages 16 and up.