The Cut, HalesworthQuirky, original voices are rare in a conformist age. But Thomas Eccleshare, whose Pastoral is one of five new plays at the core of this year's HighTide festival in the Suffolk town of Halesworth, possesses a distinctive oddity. He has taken the familiar subject of impending ecological disaster and treated it as black, surreal comedy.Anna Calder-Marshall plays, with deadpan hilarity, an old gal cal…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:10PM on May 5, 2013