@booklet {8609, title = {"The Cut"}, howpublished = {The Cut and Product }, year = {2006}, note = {

Rpt. in his Plays: 2. (London: Methuen Drama, 2008), 179-231.

}, month = {2006}, pages = {1-52}, publisher = {Methuen}, address = {London}, abstract = {

The play concerns a surgery, known as \“the cut,\” that is never defined that is used on dissidents, sick people, and those who choose to have it. It begins in the office of a practitioner who is conflicted about the practice trying to talk a healthy man out of having the surgery. In the second part, the practitioner, who has never told his wife what he does, having a confrontation with her. In the third part, a new government has outlawed \“the cut\” and the practitioner is in jail. It premiered at the Donmar Warehouse, London, February 23, 2006.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, isbn = {978-0-413-77574-0 978-1-4081-0679-2}, author = {Mark Ravenhill (b. 1966)} }