“There are rooms filled with strangers and I talk a lot. Just in recent days, in addition to nights attending “Indecent,” she attended a Workmen’s Circle event, a speaking engagement about censorship, an interview at Lincoln Center, an ACLU event and several awards ceremonies. We know all our neighbors, we look out for each other and look after each other. “All of us on the Cape talk about the release of tension when you drive over the Sagamore or the Bourne Bridge, the feeling of safety and security. She cherishes her quiet life on the Cape because these days, especially with a play on Broadway, her time off-Cape is anything but quiet. “There are certain ones I don’t tell anyone about,” she said. Like many in the Outer Cape, she also enjoys the ponds, especially the hidden ones. Vogel said she does not have a favorite beach-“we’re constantly roaming to different beaches.” I walk the dogs 365 and I’m happy when we have a nor’easter. “My favorite part of the year to be there is off-season. One of those heroes is Susan Glaspell, one of a group of writers and performers who in 1915 founded the Provincetown Players, which ushered in the birth of modern American Theater when they were the first to perform O’Neill’s work.īut unlike those pioneers of American theater, Vogel keeps a low profile on the Cape. Like any playwright, I know where all of my heroes have lived,” she said. “It has been since 1992 the place that I write. Vogel joins an elite list of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwrights who have written important works on the Cape, including Eugene O’Neill and Tennessee Williams. “I love being able to hear coyotes at night when there aren’t a lot of summer folks around.”Īnd then she summed it up. She said she also loves “the lightness, the way the sun reflects on the water.” I actually love just the smell of the air.” When asked what she likes best about Cape Cod, she has a quick answer. “I’ve been living on Cape Cod sort of off and on since 1992,” she said. When Vogel’s mother-in-law died, she and her wife, Anne Fausto-Sterling, a Brown University professor and author, moved to her mother-in-law’s house in Wellfleet, where they currently live. With proceeds from her 1997 Pulitzer Prize-winning play “How I Learned To Drive,” she bought a house in Truro.īy that time, she was splitting her time between Truro and Providence.

She started visiting the Cape more often, and when she began receiving royalties from her play “The Baltimore Waltz,” which won the Obie Award for Best Play in 1992, she purchased a condominium in Truro. Paula Vogel, a Pulitzer Play-winner writer who lives in Wellfleet on Cape Cod, is the author of the Broadway play, “Indecent.”

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