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Wed 11 Nov 2009Knives in Hens
Smock Alley, Dublin: What’s in a name? That profoundly simple question occupied Adam, blithely identifying the animals of Eden; Shakespeare’s Juliet, teasing out the absurdity of learned hatred; not to mention Ferdinand de Saussure and Claude Lévi-Strauss, building entire schools of thought from the enquiry.
It is also the driving question of David Harrower’s stimulating and earthy 1995 play, deftly realised in Landmark’s new production as a cerebral and austerely beautiful fable. Religion, control, freedom and the life of the mind are all part of the answer.
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