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Operation Elsewhere, Big Telly Theatre Company
Pure escapism from the doldrums of lockdown
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
IF LOCKDOWN proves anything, it’s how the imagination helps escape the humdrum and make sense of lives in free fall.
Virtual meeting place Zoom has not only become the new normal, communication-wise, but a powerhouse of creativity. And the Big Telly Theatre Company, brainchild of founding artistic director Zoe Seaton, has been quick to explore its potential.
Operation Elsewhere, written by Jane Talbot and directed by Seaton, uses online technology with wizardry and flair while employing the interactive techniques of live theatre to take us on a journey into a mythical space between the “tick and the tock” of ordinary time.
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