Episode # 156 - The Young Ladies Of
This is an interview with performer/creator Taylor Mac, who talks to Martin Denton about his upcoming show The Young Ladies Of.
The Young Ladies Of is based on an incident in Taylor’s father’s life: in 1968, when he was serving with the U.S. military in Vietnam, Taylor’s dad placed an ad seeking a woman to meet on leave in Australia. He received thousands of responses. Taylor’s father died when Taylor was young, so he doesn’t know much about what happened next, and this show is not a docudrama: it uses this situation as a way into an exploration of the stratification of American culture.
Taylor talks about some of his other projects. His musical from last season, Red Tide Blooming, is published in NYTE’s anthology Plays and Playwrights 2007.
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