Aidan Mathews
The play's setting is indeterminate, although it imagines several environments including a club, a square and a maze of streets.
The Diamond Body is a murder story and a case history. The protagonist is Stephanos, the hermaphroditic owner of the Easter Island Statues Club, a gay discotheque on a Greek island. The antagonist is the local population whose attitude toward the stranger in their midst moves inevitably from resentment through revulsion to open violence.
Téatar Fisiciúil/Téatar Seiftithe
Dráma Fada
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This character is identified as androgynous. In the original production it was played by a woman.
29 February 1984
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