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Britain's loneliest bat takes to the stage by Patrick Barkham

It has spent 16 winters on its own. Now a playwright has turned one bat's sad story into a gay parable full of deceit and longingInspiration is often found in unexpected places and, last summer, Irish playwright Barry McStay discovered it while flicking through a Guardian Long Read I wrote about a lonely bat. The true tale of Britain's only greater mouse-eared bat, which spent 16 winters hibernating alone in a disuse…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AM on February 17, 2019

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