Interview: "I Want to Create a European-Jewish-British Theatre Where Women Have a New Role": An Interview with Julia Pascal

Abstract

Julia Pascal was born in Manchester, the granddaughter of Romanian and the great-granddaughter of Lithuanian Jews. After studying dance as a child she moved into theatre and was trained as an actor at El5 Acting School. After four years work in theatre, TV and film she read English at London University. After graduation, she joined the National Theatre where she became the first woman director with her adaptation of Dorothy Parker's writings, the Platform Performance Men Seldom Make Passes which ran over two years. She became Associate Director of The Orange Tree Theatre for a year directing plays by Fay Weldon, Bertolt Brecht, Alfonso Vallejo and Howard Brenton.