ABSTRACT
Wendy Wasserstein wrote Uncommon Women and Others, a play about her Mount Holyoke days, for her MFA degree in 1976, and it was produced the next year at the Phoenix Theatre in New York, where Meryl got her start after Yale as well. Unlike her more confident classmates, Wendy always looked as if she wanted to put her head under her wing and disappear. Her sense of humor was a delight, but it lacked acid, the kind of edge that cuts to the quick. With her last produced work, Third at Lincoln Center, the author was finally able to see that Wendy was a major American playwright, and before writing his review for The New Republic. He was very happy to see Wendy writing at full strength and relieved to be in a position, finally, to give one of her plays his full enthusiastic endorsement.
