ABSTRACT
Deborah Levy is a playwright, poet and novelist. After working with visual artists and sculptors, and performing her poetry in pubs and galleries and on the cabaret circuit, she wrote her first plays: Pax and Clam. In 1986, she wrote Heresies for the Royal Shakespeare Company, directed by Lily Susan Todd for the RSC Women’s Project. Levy has also worked as a writer and director with the Magdalena Project, for whom she directed a devised theatre piece entitled The B File, based on her own fiction, Swallowing Geography. Her recent theatre texts have included Walks on Water (1992), Call Baby Jane (1992, Man Act Theatre), Honey Baby: 13 Studies in Exile (1995, LaMamma, Melbourne), Pushing the Prince into Denmark (1993) and Shiny Nylon (1994, Women’s Playhouse Trust). During 1995, she will be working with the languages and autobiographies of five performers from non-English speaking backgrounds in a theatrical event for Playworks in Sydney, Australia. A collection of Levy’s poetry, An Amorous Discourse in the Suburbs of Hell, and two novels, Beautiful Mutants and The Unloved, have been published by Jonathan Cape.
