In his writings, and particularly, in ‘The Third Policeman’, Flann O’Brien took scientific principles, extrapolated them to fantastic proportions, and set the outcomes in a bizarre context that is at once both logical and illogical. Written in 1940, but not published until after the author’s death in 1967, the story follows the trail of a murderer on the run through an Irish countryside that is not as we know it. In this setting, the narrator is continually challenged by scientific processes that we normally take for granted such as the relationship between light and time, the Conservation of Energy, and perhaps most famously, the Molecule Theory. His most infamous description relates to how molecular theory contributes to the production of a being that is part-Garda, part-bicycle (and vice-versa).

In this exciting two-man show, where travel is an illusion and a pint of plain is your only man, the comic world of Flann O’Brien is prised open by DCU Chemistry Professor Dermot Diamond and actor Fergus Cronin.