Strip (Royal Court Theatre)

by Phyllis Nagy

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First staged at the Almeida Theatre in 2011, 'Butterfly Kiss' unfolds the story of Lily Ross's life and crime through oblique, shifting and mesmeric scenes, her interlaced memories revealing the psychosexual tangle of her childhood and the events that led up to her trial. From her jail cell Lily summons up her past, a vivid collage of cross-fades and flashbacks cumulatively revealing aspects of her experience. Her relationships are spikily chronicled in hard-edged scenes, all leading in an show more impossible multiplicity of ways to the terrible truth of what she has done to her mother. show less

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Fiction and Literature
DDC/MDS
812.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican drama in English20th Century1945-1999
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PS3564 .A38 .S77Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1961-

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