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It is. It’s a story about a girl from the Midwest who came East, and that was deliberate.
I remember reading Fitzgerald talking about people from the Midwest who came East, and
in fact, it’s about both Heidi and Peter, two people from the Midwest who came East.
That was my attempt to make it not about me. Also, my college roommate was from Glenview,
Illinois, and my other roommate was from Hicksville, Ohio, and her dad was the mayor of Hicksville,
so…(laughs) Ellen Longsworth, so that…it was very much sort of coming East, and then
when Heidi gets upset, she’s packing her things to go back to Carleton College in the
Midwest and wants to go back.
MW: But Scoop is…
WW: Scoop is actually Canadian Jew. That’s why they call the kids Maggie and Pierre.
That’ play, everyone’s…it’s supposed to be about a diaspora, and that’s why Heidi,
who’s a Jewish girl from the South, from Memphis, from the best Jewish family in Memphis,
and her best friend Susan lands up going to Los Angeles, so they sort of scatter, and
the women’s group is in Michigan, in Ann Arbor.