On my radar: Phelim McDermott’s cultural highlights
msn.comRobin Hood. He co-founded the theatre company Improbable in 1996. The company’s first production, 70 Hill Lane, was based on McDermott’s childhood experience of a poltergeist.
He directs opera as well as theatre, including Satyagraha by Philip Glass, first staged in 2007 for the ENO. McDermott’s next show, in collaboration with the RSC, is an adaptation of 1988 Studio Ghibli film My Neighbour Totoro, previewing at the Barbican from 8 October. Treacle Walker by Alan GarnerGrowing up, I loved Alan Garner’s novels.
He came to a show I did a few years ago and afterwards talked about how he thought he’d finished with books but then realised: “Damn it, I’ve got an idea for another one. ” Treacle Walker is short and very potent, like a lot of his work.
It’s about a young man who lives alone and gets visited by a strange, shamanic rag-and-bone man, with whom he swaps totemic items.
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