A story with three beginnings and an indeterminable number of endings ... welcome to the world of a lay-about student writer and his fictional creations including Pooka MacPhellimey - "a member of the devil class", Dermot Trellis - a cynical writer of westerns and a host of Irish legends including Finn MacCool and the mad King Sweeney. Read more …
A wildly comic send-up of Irish literature and culture, At-Swim-Two-Birds is a hilariously funny and inventive head-spinning work of meta-fiction, a true masterpiece of Irish literature.
As performed by a cast of – just five, was it? – Blue Raincoat have produced a magnificently arch flesh and blood personification, not just of the low-attention span peccadilloes of O’Brien’s creative process, but of an entire psyche bursting into bawdily rambunctious life.
The whole show comes as a welcome reminder both that the human imagination knows no bounds; and that art can deal briliantly with big themes of love, creativity and death, while still bringing a smile to the face, and offering a completely surreal belly-laugh.
Tron Theatre, Glasgow from Tuesday May 17, 2011, until Saturday May 21, 2011. More info: www.tron.co.uk
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