TY - ABST T1 - "The Cut" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Mark Ravenhill (b. 1966) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

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.

JF - The Cut and Product PB - Methuen CY - London SN - 978-0-413-77574-0 978-1-4081-0679-2 N1 -

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

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