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Room in the Elephant, The

Room in the Elephant, TheLeslie Black Photography

Last year in Los Angeles the graffiti artist Banksy scrawled “THIS LOOKS A BIT LIKE AN ELEPHANT” on a worthless water tank and turned it into a priceless work of art. Read more …

Those in the know rose in unison to salute the artist’s latest comment on homelessness – the metaphorical “elephant” in the room.  An inevitable land grab subsequently followed and the water tank was taken away.

But someone had been living there. For seventeen years. And in a cruelly ironic twist of fate this man was now homeless. Because of Banksy. Or so the story goes.


The critical consensus

Beadle turns in a warm, winning performance in what is a stimulating, multi-layered, thought-provoking, Russian doll of a play.

****(*)Alan Chadwick, The Herald, 11/09/2012

Gary Beadle’s superbly wise, generous and vulnerable performance holds the show together, winning a roar of applause from the Oran Mor auidience. And by the end, it becomes clear that Wainwright has written a vital piece of 21st centrury drama, about who gets to hold the camera, to define what is art, and to shape the stories we hear; and whose life finally counts, as any kind of story at all.

****(*)Joyce McMillan, 13/09/2012

Where and when?

A Play, a Pie and a Pint, Glasgow from Monday September 10, 2012, until Saturday September 15, 2012. More info: http://playpiepint.com

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