Theatre review: Firewing

Tim (Gerard Horan) is an established wildlife photographer - well-regarded and sometimes award-winning, but not quite successful enough to have made an international career out of it: He's spent much of his life in the same wooden hut by a lake near where he grew up, taking photographs of birds and urban foxes. In recent years he's become keen to find a successor he can pass on the tricks of the trade to, and perhaps even replicate an image that has, for better or worse, defined his career: A rare Siberian Firewing that somehow made it to England, an event so unlikely he was accused of forging the photo. He's begun advertising a weekend apprenticeship programme for aspiring photographers, and after various disappointing applicants he's hoping Marcus (Charlie Beck,) a young man from the same, still-deprived area as him, will be the one.So David Pearson's Firewing treads fairly familiar ground as a two-hander between a curmudgeonly older man and a cocky young one, their initial…