Fifteen years ago, Alice was an interrogator in Guantanamo Bay. The pills she took mean she can't remember what she did.

Fifteen years ago, Bashir was a prisoner there.

Now he pays her a visit.

Lidless, Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's devastating first play, won the Yale Drama Series Award for Play-writing in 2009. A work of extraordinary intelligence and finely-balanced sensibility, it marries the implacable logic of a Greek tragedy with an all-too-modern setting.

News: Published on Friday 27 January 2011 at 03:08