Love letters to the public transport system

I don't know what the PC way is to describe a one man show when the performer is female - whatever it is the performance by Molly Taylor which I saw at The Macrobert on Thursday was superb. 

It was an hour of talking - and originating from Liverpool Molly knows how to talk. The story line was linked masterfully by public transport and described incidents in her own life including highly personal stories of love and loss. There was a beauty in the honesty of the monologue and an exuberance from the ordinariness of it all. Yet there was also real passion for travel and the way that travel is taken for granted when we rely on it for many parts of our normal lives. She also related the stories of others whose lives had similarly been changed through journeys or encounters on the public transport system.

Molly started this project with a quest to find the drivers who had made the journeys possible that had helped her to arrive at the right place at the right time to meet someone special. In a sense it was a reflection on fate, chance, design and providence in our lives.

Co-incidences happen frequently as if certain events were meant to happen.  As a Christian I recall that Archbishop Michael Ramsey said "when you pray then co-incidences happen" and George Macleod said "If you call that a coincidence, I hope you have a very dull life,"

Molly Taylor's show Love letters to the public transport system will be on at the fringe in Edinburgh and is recommended. 

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