Premiere: Friday, June 25, 1999, 10pm, on Thirteen/WNET. (Repeat: Sunday, June 27, 1999, 12 midnight.)
With a campy nod and specific allusions to contemporary horror films and the experimental Surrealist films of the '20s, this clever little piece looks at the culturally ubiquitous purse. Most women carry them and think nothing of it, but our two heroines are in for a big surprise when a chance encounter with some purses takes a sinister turn. The piece makes a tongue-in-cheek, yet unequivocal, statement about the discomfort some women feel over that conspicuously female appendage, the purse