Howard Miller takes a look at Knives in Hens:
Though playwright David Harrower hails from Scotland, his compelling if occasionally opaque 1995 play Knives in Hens, opening today at 59E59 Theaters in a production by The Shop, has the feel of an Appalachian folk tale that has been shaped through many generations of retelling, filled in over time with bits of music, dance, Biblical allusions, and a call for a woman's right to self-determination. You might subtitle it "The Legend of Young Woman and Pony William" after the pair of dirt-poor, hardscrabble characters at its center. . . . |
