OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Aidan Mathews 

• Author Notes

  Written in collaboration with the company.

• Setting

  The play's setting is indeterminate, although it imagines several environments including a club, a square and a maze of streets.

• Synopsis

  The Diamond Body is a murder story and a case history. The protagonist is Stephanos, the hermaphroditic owner of the Easter Island Statues Club, a gay discotheque on a Greek island. The antagonist is the local population whose attitude toward the stranger in their midst moves inevitably from resentment through revulsion to open violence.

• Play Type

  Physical/Devised Theatre
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

• Cast Size Female

  1

• Cast Notes

  This character is identified as androgynous. In the original production it was played by a woman.

ORIGINAL PRODUCTION

• Date of First Production

  29 February 1984

• Producer

  Produced by Operating Theatre

• Original Venue

  Project Arts Centre
  

SOURCE OF INFORMATION

The information for this entry was taken from the original production programme. Additional information was supplied by a member of Operating Theatre.