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BAC 2, London >>>

2001

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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Synopsis: Over at the BAC, there's one of the funniest one-man shows I've seen in a long, long while. In 1998, Niall Ashdown went to Hungary on a bird-watching holiday with his father. 'Hungarian Bird Festival' is his way of reliving that week's tensions, tediums and glorious epiphany. A regular collaborator with Improbable Theatre, Ashdown draws you into a state of nerdy fascination with all things ornithological using just two chairs and his own, considerable skills as a performer. You find yourself caring about such trivialities as the state of his binoculars and the discovery of eagle-owl pellets. "The pacing is superb; Ashdown pecks around prosaic details then suddenly takes wing on a reminiscence. Standing half-in, half-out of the holiday, his detachment is at first highly amusing, then increasingly rueful as he contemplates the gulf between himself and his father, and between his adult and nine-year-old self. Flock to see it." Daily Telegraph