An adaptation of Angela Carter's short story "The Fall River Axe Murders," the play was first produced by Arts Threshold in London. A surreal, experimental film was projected during certain sections of the performance.

Mr. Borden strokes his stocks and bonds; Mrs. Borden ceaselessly eats. Their exhausted maid takes to her sweltering attic bed. They're all out of sorts. Daughter Lizzie, too, feels peculiar, isn't quite herself today. In the blistering morning heat, she irons. She could have escaped the heat, could have joined her sister at the beach. Emma begged her to come, begged her not to stay in Fall River, not to stay in the Borden house for one more minute. As if under a spell, Lizzie couldn't leave. Lizzie had a pressing date with destiny. Lizzie Borden took an axe... The Lizzie Play scavenges trial transcripts, newspaper reports and true crime writing to give a darkly humorous, haunting retelling of a brutal and curiously tidy act of parental butchery.—RADA