Theatre preview: Perth Theatre prepares to reopen with a revival of David Harrower’s Knives In Hens

If you were writing a novel about the life of a struggling young playwright – or a film script, or even a play – you could hardly construct a more dramatic opening scene. The place is the bar of the Traverse Theatre in Cambridge Street, Edinburgh; and the time is the mid 1990s, just on the verge of the moment when plays like Sarah Kane’s Blasted and Mark Ravenhill’s Shopping and F***ing were about to take new British playwriting on a historic roll across Europe and beyond.