The New York Times: The British playwright Lucy Kirkwood gets the jitters on opening nights, and it was no different earlier this month when she made her Broadway debut with “The Children.” But at the post-show party, at a blues club near Times Square, politics proved an unexpectedly pleasant distraction.
It was election night in Alabama, and as word of Roy Moore’s Senate loss filtered through the crowd, Ms. Kirkwood said she felt that was reason enough to celebrate, no matter what the critics turned out to think.
“Despair is not an acceptable position,” she said over coffee later that week, “but it’s hard not to feel like the last year has been quite a hopeless time.”
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This was an insightful interview of Lucy Kirkwood. I think it is interesting, the thought of incorporation of the need of clean energy into a play. I like that she was able to make this issues relatable, with an emotional sorry. To me it could be a sort of warning to what might happen if we ignoring climate change. This could be a really relevant way to get people who doubt global warming, to begin to understand and visualize the negative effects of not doing anything to better our planet. She also talk about appropriating an American culture. To that I would say, good luck. I as an america, I wouldn’t know how to begin to appropriate what it means to be an american. There are way too many perspectives to generalize what it means. Furthermore the jobs of a play write or any writer is to observe and to write what you know, not necessarily who you are.
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