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
circa 1994
English
WORK.1994.0063

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