"The Cut"
| Title | "The Cut" |
| Year for Search | 2006 |
| Authors | Ravenhill, Mark(b. 1966) |
| Secondary Title | The Cut and Product |
| Pagination | 1-52 |
| Date Published | 2006 |
| Publisher | Methuen |
| Place Published | London |
| ISBN Number | 978-0-413-77574-0 978-1-4081-0679-2 |
| Keywords | English author, Male author |
| Annotation | 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. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in his Plays: 2. (London: Methuen Drama, 2008), 179-231. |
| Info Notes | Play first performed at the Donmar Warehouse, London February 23, 2006. |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | (b. 1966) |
| Full Text | 2006 Ravenhill, Mark (b. 1966). “The Cut.” In his The Cut and the Product (London: Methuen, 2006), 1-52. Rpt. in his Plays: 2 (London: Methuen Drama, 2008), 179-231. PSt 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. |
