“Knots by Ben SantaMaria is a political piece which deals with the issues of modern-day Britain and puts women centre-stage in an unapologetic and brave way.”
Herstory Festival founder and producer Nastazja Domaradzka
Hannah Calascione (Offie Award winner for All the Little Lights, Tristan Bates Theatre) directed Anya Hamilton and Natalie Harper in this play by Ben.
It was programmed in the second Herstory Festival and staged in November 2016 at Theatre N16 in Balham.
A young woman sits as her mother combs her hair after a nice day together. But the daughter’s actually building up the courage to confess she’s about to take part in an assassination plot against the British government, which she feels has brought the country to its knees. Though the carefully organised plan involves a large number of people from all levels of society, and the mother is sympathetic to the group's political views, she now has to race the clock to try to prevent her daughter from wrecking her life for the sake of this futile gesture.