Knives in Hens by David Harrower

Knives in Hens by David Harrower

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Summary

Set in a God-fearing, pre-industrial rural community, this play deals with a woman's discovery of a language that corresponds with her feelings.

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Knives in Hens by David Harrower

Knives in Hens is a brutal fable set in a timeless spartan rural community "An outstanding new Scottish play, David Harrower's Knives in Hens is set in a God-fearing, pre-industrial world and deals, passionately and intelligently with a woman's discovery of a language that corresponds with her feelings...A remarkable debut" (Guardian) Knives in Hens received its premiere at the Traverse Theatre Edinbuirgh in June 1995 and transferred to the Bush Theatre in London in November 1995."David Harrower's remarkable debut as a professional dramatist creates a haunting, poetic and entirely individual world of its own. I have never seen a play quite like it...You leave the theatre in no doubt that you have watched one of the year's most heartening and accomplished debuts. Harrower already seems like a writer built to last." (Daily Telegraph)
'Harrower's pre-industrial drama is a beautifully sparse and powerfully brutal story of an uneducated and neglected young woman's self-realisation through a relationship with literate miller' Mark Brown, Sunday Herald, 16.6.11
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ISBN 13 9780413721105
ISBN 10 0413721108
Title Knives in Hens
Author David Harrower
Series Modern Plays
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published 1997-08-07
Number of pages 70
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