★★★★☆Scrambled penguin eggs, small talk about bull semen, roads like “a carpet made of porridge”: certain details of living on the Falkland Islands in the Eighties were eyebrow-raisingly different from those of living in Britain. In his beguiling new play – vivid as a cold blast of air from the South Atlantic – Brad Birch asks how, in 1982, an archipelago eight thousand miles away came to epitomise British hopes and fears in a fracturing world.
At the start the Falklands conflict is just a spectre on the horizon as we’re flung into a community where the annual social highlight is a two-day shindig after the sheep shearing. “This is a history play, but please don’t worry, there will still be plenty of swearing,”
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