sustained theatre

By Kamini Gupta

Theatre designer Kamini Gupta tells the stories behind the sets

Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig, directed by Sita Ramamurthy, Leicester Haymarket Studio Theatre

The 1983 stage play Kiss of the Spider Woman is an adaptation of Manuel Puig's same title novel by the author himself. Set in a cell at the Villa Devoto prison in Buenos Aires in 1976, it shows the developing relationship of a political activist Valentin Arregui Paz and his cellmate Luis Alberto Molina, a homosexual who has apparently been 'planted' to sniff out the secrets of Valentin's Marxist group.
For the Haymarket version we set it in a prison somewhere in the Indian sub-continent.