Traverse, EdinburghThere was I thinking Knives in Hens was one of those plays that didn't change much from production to production. David Harrower's astonishing 1995 debut is set in an unspecified rural place where mechanisation gets no more sophisticated than the village mill and language itself is blunt and functional. Standard practice is to establish a pre-industrial atmosphere suggesting sackcloth, cattle and g…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:44PM on June 8, 2011