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“The Hanging Man was about an unsatisfied architect who attempts suicide by the rope – in his own unfinished cathedral. Actors appear out of the skeletal woodwork, masked white figures in tall hats and floppy Pulcinella garb, too soon discarded. One becomes Death, who is angry with the architect: she is not at the beck and call of just anybody with a death wish. Her revenge is to withhold the kiss of death not only from the architect but from everyone else too. Nobody may die.”

— Penny Francis in ‘Hung, Drawn and Quartered’