Synopsis

Knives in Hens is a brutal fable of awakening consciousness, a study of sex and knowledge that is stark and fierce. The play is set in a timeless and spartan rural community, where conversation is blunt and functional, a tool like a plough or a knife. When the ploughman Pony Williams tells his wife, the unnamed Young Woman, that she is like a field, the simile makes no sense to her – she has no use for figurative language. But she begins an extraordinary journey towards articulacy, demanding…