Director's Note by Tim Harris Kiss of the Spiderwoman, a reworking of his novel of the same name, was Manuel Puig’s first play and it remains his best-known one. It is an intricately wrought work that juxtaposes the story of two prisoners with the story of the film about the ‘pantherwoman’, … [Read More...]
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Some words on the 'understaff' by Walter Roberts
The Hothouse, like all of Pinter’s plays, consists of broad plot events that act as a framework for a myriad of isolated events. Through these smaller events the characters show their brutality and manipulation of each other and their sinister, cruel and comic colors of physical and psychological … [Read More...]
‘Oh, no, no, not phytotomy’ by Tim Harris
Phytotomy is the dissection of plants – vegetable anatomy, if you like – and there is even a family of South American birds called phytotomidae, who nip off the young buds and shoots of plants with their serrated bills… Not that there are any of these birds in the institution so sadistically mismanaged … [Read More...]