Blending interviews, historical research and verbatim opera this unique work tells the story of our attempts to find the oldest woman in Limerick in Limerick and the people met along the way. A moving portrait of a town and of the 20th Century.
Set in a world where bingo, bubbles and giant rabbits conspire to create unmeasurable happiness the opera follows the lives and struggles of several interconnected individuals: Shirley, a bingo caller distributing toasters nightly and seeking solutions in the random arithmetic of bingo numbers, Morris who tries to fnd purpose and hope in the making of endless ‘to do’ …