You're Just Like My Father
Work
You're Just Like My Father is an autobiographical work by Peggy Shaw that focuses on the experiences of growing up Butch and the working-class Butch in the 1950s.
Author and performer Shaw insists she was not writing about her father, but about her mother. In the play she explains:
"She loved me, my mother. She recognized me. 'You look just like your father,' she said. I put on a starched shirt and i was my father."
The work premiered at ICA in London January 1994 in association with the Gay Sweatshop.
press release
Author and performer Shaw insists she was not writing about her father, but about her mother. In the play she explains:
"She loved me, my mother. She recognized me. 'You look just like your father,' she said. I put on a starched shirt and i was my father."
The work premiered at ICA in London January 1994 in association with the Gay Sweatshop.
press release
circa 1994
English
WORK.1994.0063
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