The play begins as an adult Heidi gives a lecture to students and travels back in time to 1965, when Heidi is still a teenager, before progressing through her life. "I wish it were dated more than it is, but it does feel like the issues of today and fulfilling your potential and having it all - there's this complicated psychology of being a woman as well as the sociology of making your way in your own career and thoughts of family - are still very, very current in our country." "I don't think it's a dated play in any way, shape or form," she said. I don't know why we cut that let's put that back in.' It's very character subtext, and I can see getting rid of it, but I love actually seeing them saying it aloud." Wasserstein's play follows the life of Heidi Holland, beginning with a high school dance and progressing through her participation in the feminist movement and career as an art historian as she strives to "have it all" in a rapidly changing cultural landscape.Īlthough the play first bowed on Broadway in 1989, MacKinnon believes it is still extremely relevant.
"I pitched that to the estate headed by Andre Bishop, and he said, 'That sounds good. "We're going to add for this production," MacKinnon said.
Lehrer shared the original draft of the play, which was used in its Off-Broadway premiere at Playwrights Horizons and included two lines of dialogue that were not included in the final script that are now spoken in the final scene between Heidi and her longtime love interest Scoop, about a life-changing decision that Heidi makes. When directing the recent revival of Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance, MacKinnon worked with Scott Lehrer, who was the sound designer of the first Broadway production of The Heidi Chronicles.
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