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Synopsis

A group of Mount Holyoke-educated women meet at a restaurant for a reunion six years after they graduate. After excitedly greeting one another, telling jokes, and catching up, they flashback to various important moments from their college days that have helped to define their post-graduate lives. We see the impact of these early choices on their lives during the advent of second-wave feminism in the 1970s, as these women navigate work in what is still a man’s professional world and try to achieve the delicate and ever-unattainable work-life balance for which they long. It becomes clear that some of the women are exactly where they hoped to be, while others are still trying to find their way. Nonetheless, they all agree that it is their relationships with each other that have meant the most, and they are unified in their hope that good things will come to all of them in the future.

Show Information

Book
Wendy Wasserstein
Category
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)
Number of Acts
2
First Produced
1977
Genres
Drama, Comedy
Time & Place
a restaurant in 1978, and six years earlier at a college for women
Cast Size
medium
Licensor
Dramatists Play Service
Ideal For
Mostly Female Cast, Includes Young Adult, Adult, Mature Adult Characters, Medium Cast

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Characters

Name Part Size Gender Vocal Part

Kate Quinn

Lead

Female

Non-singer

Samantha Stewart

Lead

Female

Non-singer

Holly Kaplan

Lead

Female

Non-singer

Muffet Di Nicola

Lead

Female

Non-singer

Rita Altabel

Lead

Female

Non-singer

Leilah

Lead

Female

Mrs. Plumm

Supporting

Female

Non-singer

Susie Friend

Supporting

Female

Non-singer

Carter

Supporting

Female

Spoken

Man’s Voice

Supporting

Male

Spoken

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