ABSTRACT

The work of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel (b.1951) makes the commonplace strange, gives voice to those historically silenced, and reshapes dramatic storytelling with each new play. Indeed, most of Vogel's plays, spanning several waves of feminism, invite audiences to consider just how oppressive American myths and their concomitant prescriptions for gender and sexuality are. Victoria Myers’ “An Interview with Paula Vogel” delves into the unconventional, intertextual, transhistorical, and unequivocally feminist legacy of Vogel's oeuvre.