This play has been used in a radio drama workshop by Elaine Aston
and Geraldine Harris
, and the script has been posted by the BBC
on its website Writersroom because it has such pedagogic...
Literary responses
Sarah Daniels
Its horrific material and particularly its bleak conclusion have made this SD
's best-known play. It is also the most controversial. Initial reviews included plenty of accusations of lesbian man-hating. Many reviewers (says feminist critic...
Literary responses
Sarah Daniels
Critics Elaine Aston
and Geraldine Harris
discern increased psychological realism in SD
's radio plays (as opposed to the broken realism of her stage plays), and a way of writing the domestic which subverts the...
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Texts
Aston, Elaine, and Geraldine Harris. Performance Practice and Process: Contemporary (Women) Practitioners. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.