In a mysterious institution, a secret project takes place. Four women are set a bizarre challenge: to improve the national standards of torture. What ingredients can the female psyche add to ‘enhanced interrogation’? Pain or pleasure? Compassion or cruelty? Will the nameless, faceless prisoner in their power find them erotic or neurotic? As time passes, will the women reject their orders to inflict suffering – or will they start to join in the fun? Agit-prop for the Friends generation, the play is a devastatingly witty and savagely satirical exploration of the nature of torture, cruelty and what it means to be human. Containing characters we all recognise, An Act of Twisting is funny, shocking, disturbing and tragic – often all at the same time.