At thirteen, profoundly affected by a Saturday matinee of John McGrath
's Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun and by the idea that theatre can change people's lives, she decided to be a playwright.
Page, Louise. “Tissue”. Plays by Women: Volume One, edited by Michelene Wandor and Michelene Wandor, Methuen, 1982, pp. 75-103.
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Textual Production
Beryl Bainbridge
Before beginning work on The Dressmaker, BB
had begun on a novel set in the USA entitled He's the Captan of the Team. This seems to have no connection with The Dressmaker...