‘D’ is a stereotypical bourgeois, cigar-smoking theatre director, decked in matching fur coat and toque hat, intent on the process of creating his aesthetically satisfying piece of theatrical art. It is he who controls the process of creativity. When his revels are ended, it is he who blithely abandons P to his suffering.

Assistant

‘A’ mechanically performs the role of implementing the desires of her master, as any theatrical production assistant must. In applying his designs on stage, she becomes progressively encumbered by and hidden behind the garments she removes from P, enabling the centre of focus to remain on P.

Protagonist

‘P’ is placed on a pedestal, immobile, speechless and almost totally passive. His cruel fate is to be reduced to whatever humiliation his creator wishes him to suffer. Such is the creative process. Such is life.