A funny thing happened on the way to the pub… Bob Cunningham thought he saw a man ascend into the sky. Read more …
It’s two years after the referendum, and Bob Cunningham has stuff on his mind: whether or not to take early retirement; politics, of course, and what to do about the No vote, Brexit, Corbyn, refugees… that weird thing about rising into the heavens… and not forgetting the letter from Ethel, his ex-.
It puts him in storytelling mood - Bob’s one of life’s raconteurs - all the while trying to decide what to do about retirement and the onset of old age, and whether his life’s work is done. Is he finished? Can he come to terms with his, and his country’s, past, and future?
A meandering but entertaining meditation on the ways in which the world has changed since Brexit.
A blistering one-man Brexistential crisis full of humour and pathos.
What is more difficult, for Dolan and Hayman, is to find a way of talking about the present Trump-Brexit political impasse that doesn’t just repeat the rants we can see every day on a dozen social media groups.
Hayman flits briskly between gallus bravura, lingering pathos and a fierce commitment to something better as Bob attempts to make sense of the mess which the majority of us have had thrust upon us by the darkest of powers imaginable.
On Tour, from Wednesday February 1, 2017, until Sunday March 12, 2017.
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