Theatre reviews: Knives in Hens | The Match Box | Company

In a village where people live by tradition, a young woman is restless. She’s not unhappy in her marriage to the local ploughman, Pony William; yet she has this strange need to be always naming and describing things – the look of a tree as the wind shivers through it, or the difference between a muddy puddle and a clear one that reflects the sky. And when she sees the much-hated local miller writing down his thoughts in a book, she reacts first with fury, then with growing fascination; she begins to see how words can both create and destroy, and to find her own voice.