Tissue

Louise Page has written, in darting, daring, time-chopping structure, a play about breast cancer in which she has to deal with dominant definitions of feminity in order to probe the pain in the problem. As she he'self says, "once I started talking openly about writing a play on mastectomy, women whom I had no idea had had mastectomies began to confide their experiences to me. I began to understand more and more the taboo nature of the'subject I was writing about and how much women wanted the'subject discussed."