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Reviewer Denise Lozeau

Denise Lozeau is a Library Specialist II at the University of Central Oklahoma.

Title

Uncommon Women and Others

Review

Uncommon Women and Others is the story of the alumnae of Mount Holyoke College (Wasserstein's alma mater) who meet for lunch one day in 1978 and talk about their time together in college. The play is thus a series of flashbacks to the 1972-1973 school year as seven seniors and one freshman try to discover themselves in the wake of second-wave feminism.

The performers include Jill Eikenberry, Ann McDonough, Alma Cuervo, Ellen Parker, Swoosie Kurtz, Josephine Nichols, Cynthia Herman, Meryl Streep, Anna Levine.

Uncommon Women and Others is one of a series of Broadway productions presented by educational TV in the 1970s and 1980s. The programs provide about 90 minutes of uninterrupted viewing. It is fun and interesting to see many of today's mega-stars in their early, younger days of acting. Other titles UCO Chambers library has recently added to the catalog include:

Samuel Beckett's Happy days - Happy days tells the story of Winnie, an eternal optimist facing the harsh realities of the world with a smile and impenetrable cheerfulness, probing humankind's search for meaning and questions the relationships that bind one person to another.

The Journey of the Fifth Horse - one of Dustin Hoffman's first roles on stage - Journey of the Fifth Horse follows the life of Mr. Zoditch, a reader at a Russian publishing house, and his experience of reading the memoir of the late Nikolai Chulkaturin. Chulkaturin's words haunt Zoditch, forcing him to question his own existence

Tennessee William's Eccentricities of a Nightingale starring Blythe Danner, Frank Langella, Tim O'Connor. Set in Mississippi at the turn of the 19th century, the eccentric, highly emotional Alma Winemiller, a minister's spinster daughter, decides to settle for one night in a hotel room with the socially prominent young doctor next door. Keyword search UCO catalog for "Broadway Theatre Archive" for many more titles.

Review Date

Reviewed April 2009