Company: Arts Council of England (see notes)/Betsey's Salon
Director: Nina Rapi
First Production: Betsey's Trotwood, Jan 2006 (extract)
Genre: Non-naturalistic play
Parts: 4 female, 3 male

A priest, a mercenary, a dominatrix; an anorexic, a bodyguard
and a bodybuilder - are locked up in a detention centre/mindscape
tortured by the deaths of those whom they profess to have
loved deeply. The state is watching them as they are watching
each other and themselves, looking for answers. Were their acts of
violence acts of love and beauty or hatred? How can you determine
guilt? Can guilt be physically erased? Is redemption possible when
reality-twisting rules?


Notes: Angelstate was awarded a Theatre Writing Bursary by the Arts Council
of England 1998; and a London Writers prize for its extract Confession 1999.