The Oldest Profession

Name: The Oldest Profession
Author: Paula Vogel

by Paula Vogel

Play exploring women's sex work through economics, narrative, and female perspective

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Paula Vogel

American playwright and teacher whose work explores sexuality, abuse, and memory with formal inventiveness and dark humor. How I Learned to Drive won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998. As a teacher at Yale, she has shaped the careers of scores of American playwrights.

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The Baltimore WaltzMemory play of sisters' shared experience of AIDS epidemic and loss in Baltimore
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DesdemonaImagined dialogue between Othello's wife exploring agency beyond Shakespeare's tragedy
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