Wasps

David E. Kemp, a former drama professor at Queen’s University, is the
author of The Pleasures and Treasures of the United Kingdom.

Playwright and filmmaker Sally Clark, the author of nine plays, received
a Chalmers Canadian Play Award for Moo in 1990. Subtitled “A Drawing
Room Comedy for Distempered Times,” Wasps is an angry but funny play
about cultural absurdities ranging from fashion to fetishism. Its
structure recalls a classic French farce—doors open and shut,
identities are mistaken, and the plot becomes more and more complicated.
But through its exploration of 20th-century angst, Wasp offers much more
than superficial cleverness.