Margot Mason, a thinly veiled version of Germaine Greer, has writer's block following publication of her groundbreaking polemic, The Cerebral Vagina, when in through the French windows steps one of her ex-students--with a gun. This play frequently says the unsayable and gets away with it under cover of the spiraling comedy.

-The teenager, the bride to be, the exhausted young mother, the lonely widow . . . they are funny and often touching in these four monologues deftly written by Joanna Murray-Smith. Little gems, as observant as anything in Alan Bennet's Talking Heads--and considerably less static.---Guardian

1995, the Swiss Alps. Patricia Highsmith, the queen of the thriller, now ageing and ailing, hides away in her study, surrounded by her collection of books and antique weaponry, finding solace in her seclusion, her cats and her cigarettes. A polished young man turns up, sent by her New York publisher to persuade her to write one final instalment of her best-selling series featuring the master manipulator, Tom Ripley. But as day breaks over the mountains, it becomes clear that the charming stranger is set on a far more sinister mission. Switzerland was first performed at the Sydney Opera...