Who is Samantha Panther?
She's a super-tough, super-cool, super-crime-fighting detective on a raw, brawling hunt to nab the woman and get the man. Clawing her way through a web of gorgeous men, blazing guns, blackmail, and deadly music, Panther discovers that sometimes - in a world of corruption - it's sing or be killed.
This play was written as a tribute to Mickey Spillane on his 80th Birthday. It was greatly influenced by Spillane’s writing style, particularly I The Jury, the first Mike Hammer novel. The twist is, of course, that the tough as nails detective is a woman - and all of the lovely but deadly sex objects are men. The poster art concept was based on a different Spillane novel, called The Delta Factor.
The novel that inspired Samantha’s posters - please don’t beat us up, Mr Spillane’s lawyers - next to the book version of the play.