The main aim of this paper is to study Wendy Wasserstein's The Heidi Chronicles (1988) as a dark comedy in the light of Pirandello's definition of dark comedy.Wendy Wasserstein (1950Wasserstein ( -2006) ) is one of the contemporary female playwrights who makes use of dark comedy.She is an excellent example of the genre dark comedy in the late twentieth century.This study attempts to explore a brie...