Think of the forces that shaped modern Britain and what comes to mind is heavy industry: mining, chemicals, oil … We tend not to think of scissors. Why would we? In our era of mass production, scissors are too commonplace to be noticed; not so much noble as comic.
Yet here in Sheffield, the city of steel, the production of scissors was once the province of as many as 60 companies. And in her audacious trilogy of plays performed simultaneously in three adjacent theatres, Chris Bush uses these everyday objects as a symbol. They stand for permanence in a world in flux.
