Caryl Churchill Critical Essay | Interview with Churchill (1984)

Interview with Churchill (1984)

SOURCE: Interviews with Contemporary Women Playwrights, by Kathleen Betsko and Rachel Koenig, Beech Tree Books, 1987, pp. 75-84.

The interviewers Kathleen Betsko and Rachel Koenig are both American drama critics; Emily Mann is an American playwright. The following is taken from a two-part interview, first with Betsko and Koenig in February 1984, and then with Mann in November of that year. Churchill discusses her association with Joint Stock Theatre in London, her politics, and her writing career.

[Interviewer]: Is there a female aesthetic? And we'd like you to wrap this question up once and for all. [Laughter]

[Churchill]: I don't see how you can tell until there are so many plays by women that you can begin to see what they have in common that's different from the way men have written, and there are still relatively so few. And we have things in common with male playwrights who are...
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