Playwright Paula Vogel is known not just for her work on Broadway — but for the generations of famous playwrights whose careers she has nurtured. Mother Play is about her own mother.
, starring Jessica Lange and up for several Tony Awards. But since 1984, she has taught scores of younger playwrights – first at Brown University, then at Yale.
"I wanted my students to get on Broadway before I did," Vogel said."I wanted my students to get produced at theater companies that I would never be produced in. And, you know, I always think of this as kind of one stop shopping; come in as an emerging playwright and leave the room as my colleague." "I met Paula when I was 20, and my father had just died of cancer, and I was back at Brown and I was having a little trouble focusing," Ruhl said."And Paula really understood how grief shapes an artist, and, also how to help artists out of that muddle and into their work.", sends the title character to Hades where she meets her dead father.first met Vogel, she was planning to go to journalism school and didn't realize that playwrighting was a career path for women.
"So, I think that having an ally and having a sister and having someone, literally, I could hold hands with and, you know, fight the powers-that-be, really emboldened me and allowed me to survive that." All three playwrights have become teachers themselves, and friends with one another. Hudes said she and Vogel share early drafts of their plays."I have read. And I think it's her best play, and I don't say that lightly. I am in awe of her body of work."Yet while Vogel may have become a nurturing teacher and colleague,Jessica Lange plays the fictional version.
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