Killing the Cat is a play about memory and writing. Moving between the 70s and the present day it shows Danny writing about his sister's experience of sexual abuse by his father. As he invents a fiction of what he has been told has happened, what he remembers happening and what he imagines or dreams to have happened in the past Danny's story threatens to blow the family apart, until the other members join ranks to keep the story a family secret.
Killing The Cat (Methuen Drama Modern Plays)
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Author(s)David Spencer
PublisherBloomsbury Methuen Drama
ISBN / ASIN0413642100
ISBN-139780413642103
AvailabilityUsually ships in 1 to 4 weeks
Sales Rank99,999,999
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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Killing the Cat is a play about memory and writing. Moving between the 70s and the present day it shows Danny writing about his sister's experience of sexual abuse by his father. As he invents a fiction of what he has been told has happened, what he remembers happening and what he imagines or dreams to have happened in the past Danny's story threatens to blow the family apart, until the other members join ranks to keep the story a family secret.
Killing the Cat is a play about memory and writing. Moving between the 70s and the present day it shows Danny writing about his sister's experience of sexual abuse by his father. As he invents a fiction of what he has been told has happened, what he remembers happening and what he imagines or dreams to have happened in the past Danny's story threatens to blow the family apart, until the other members join ranks to keep the story a family secret.