Where did the idea for ‘The Walworth Farce’ originate?
GO: ‘The Walworth Farce,’ like your earlier works, focuses on a family. Is the play at all autobiographical? EW: I don’t think so, but I’m very interested in what it means to be a father or a brother in a family. You’re brought up within a family, but the more you live away from one another, the less of a connection you have. You think you know your family, but do you? At the heart of it, this play is about a father trying to keep the family together in an extraordinary, funny, ludicrous, cruel way. I think any man will recognize the real need to keep his sons or daughters safe. My relationship with my father, knowing that he was always trying to do the best thing for us…from a son’s point of view, you look at it and say ‘I don’t think you did that right,’ but in retrospect, you know he did a fine job. It’s that sort of conversation I want to have with the audience; it’s theatrical but the sentiment is simple. GO: One of the characters performs in drag. How does that go over with his f
