While preparing to introduce a company of college students to Ms. Wasserstein's piece, I kept coming back to her own words about the play: "When I wrote 'Heidi,' I was 35, I had just written a movie for Spielberg that didn't work out, I wasn't married and I was beginning to feel like the odd man out at baby showers. I didn't know whether the sacrifices I had made were worth the road I was taking. So I decided to write a play about that." For me, as the director, the play became about a woman, always desperate to connect to the times, places, and people who surrounded her, and her journey to owning the stability and strength of her individual identity in this ever-changing country.