I Interview Playwrights Part 1046: Kate Attwell

Kate Attwell

Hometown: London, UK

Current Town: Brooklyn, NY

Q:  Tell me about your play in the EST Marathon. 



A:  Jesus in Manhattan - I guess what feels most important to me to say, is that I want to investigate the notion of radical love, and what that could really mean for the world.

Q:  What else are you working on now?

A:  I have a premiere of my play, Testmatch, coming up at A.C.T. in the fall directed by Pam McKinnon, so there's that. Then I'm working on a musical that's a mashup of a recent news story and Medea, and a new play about the female characters from an old play trying to get vengeance for what happened to them, and another one about bears.

Q:  If you could change one thing about theater, what would it be?

A:  I think I'd want to change the way we think about audience. I worry sometimes about the tendency of theatre and theatre companies to turn inward. To be a little clique-y. I also worry about ticket prices. Always and a lot.

Q:  Who are or were your theatrical heroes?

A:  I think Tim Etchells and Forced Entertainment toppled what I had thought theatre could be, at a young moment when I really needed that to happen. There's a liveness and a playful politics to their work that makes me understand presence in an emotional way, and that I still return to. Then there's Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping. I think I'm drawn to anything that teases the distinction between the stage and the world; that plays with the falseness of it all.

Q:  What kind of theater excites you?

A:  Any theatre that makes you want to rush and tell someone what JUST HAPPENED.





 


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