A play by W. B. Yeats
Strong sitiew and soft flesh Are foliage round the shaft Before the arrowsmith
Has stripped it, and I pray That I. all foliage gone,
May shoot into my joy ...'
This strange play, which has been performed only once, was the work of the older and outspoken Yeats. Yeats learned his stagecraft by studying a play of Corneille. In The Heme's Egg, mors than in his other plays, one finds that severity of line and economy of words and image that mark the mature Yeats -almost, indeed, as if the play had been thought backwards and written forwards. with music for flute, percussion, and singer composed and directed by Humphrey Searle
Production by W. R. Rodgers