The inaugural production of Performance Corporation in 2002 matched

Voltaire's withering assault against the doctrine of optimism with a playful aesthetic

and endlessly inventive stagecraft. Each play in this collection was originally staged

by the Performance Corporation and though Swift has explored different avenues ever since, such playfulness is a constant.

The writing is precise, but leaves room for the discoveries of rehearsals, the flesh of the theatre.

All plays are blueprints for performance, but several of these scripts

– many of which are site-specific and all of them slyly topical – are documents for something unrepeatable.

Tom Swift

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