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By the bog of cats The play "by the bog of cats" is from a mythical Greek heroine into the crude, rugged, wild Hester Swane - an Irish traveller living on the side of a bog. As emotions run deep, and the difference between love and hate, hope and despair, grief and revenge, reduces until each act becomes terrifying. The play begins at dusk with Hester (Holly Hunter), dragging the corpse of a black swan, who played with as a child, across the frozen landscape back to her caravan. We later learn that the swan acted as a type of mother to Hester, and so the trail of red blood left on the stage by Hester's dragging of the dead swan acts as a constant reminder of Hester's abandonment by her mother, when she was just a child. It is this abandonment that explains Hester's actions, it is jealousy that her...

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