"There would not be a feather on a hen harrier chick's head harmed," said Anderson.
"Things have changed a bit since my time," she adds, raising her eyebrows at two women, one black, one white, who wear nothing but discreet jewels between their legs and red feather head-dresses which trail down their backs.
Unknown" C) "She come looking for her feather.
And when you get home it will be a while before you forget the casual whoop of the tree frogs at nightfall or the magnificent flamboyant trees with their thick, confident branches and shocking red-feather tops.
She wears little Doc Martens and earrings and fancy feather coats.
Perhaps the best example of this is Feather Down Farms.
So here, for the time being, are the chickens, all 6,000 of them; 1,000 per state-of-the free-range-poultry-art mobile barn, a crowd of white-feather-dusters fossicking around in the grass surrounding their homes.
Then the otherwise accurate spinner drifts a touch to the leg and Taylor is able to feather it past the keeper for four more.
Not just a glass of red and a few peanuts, either: in its San Francisco Triton hotel, we all wore feather boas and had our palms read.
Shoeboxes full of passports, wads of bankcards and trays of wallets are stacked on the floor, while an impressive pile of feather jewellery sits on the side.
But she's also aware that when she takes the stage in her white tutu and feather headdress, the moment will resonate beyond the four walls of the theatre.
