Lights come up on a stage with four chairs along the front. The sounds of rain reversed is played throughout. The four EMs enter and sit on the chairs. They are all dressed the same. All with headphones on. Each me carries a mirror which they use to read the reversed text. NB: The text…

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The Characters. Mrs Xu Mr Huang Mr Chan Mrs Mak Little girl Mak Stupid Fa Master Lui Mayor Cheng Mr Xiao Various villagers. The Play. A rural village in the Fujian province of China.   Mrs Xu sits in the sunshine drinking a cup of tea, on a bench next to her front door.  …

Cast: Old lacemaker Porter   Scene: An empty space surrounded by audience on all sides. An elderly lace maker enters with a chair. She places the chair in the centre of the space. She leaves the stage. She re-enters with a small table and a basket. She places both down besides the chair. She seats…

THE HUNT. Based on ‘Titus Andronicus’ by William Shakespeare Production notes. The play is set in the fictionalised early 19th century deep South of the Cohen Brothers and Tarantino. The costumes, music and accents are hyperbolic comic book grotesques designed to heighten the graphic nature of the violence of Shakespeare’s original account. Nothing here should…