ph. John Cobb Border Crossings (Ireland) is a new theatre company based in (or, perhaps more accurately, “based out of”) Sligo: a small town on the Atlantic Coast, with fewer than 20,000 inhabitants. 5.5% of the population forms the significant Polish minority, and 4.1% are described by the census as “people from countries outside the EU”. The census statistics date from 2016, so the latter figure does not yet include British people. It’s not the sort of place that is usually associated with intercultural theatre: that tends to be the preserve of large cosmopolitan cities with histories of migration and complex populations. But Sligo is surprising. As you walk from the centre to the railway station, you pass a bust, given by the Indian Embassy in 2015, which portrays the Bengali playwright, poet, painter and educator Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore is celebrated in Sligo because of his friendship with W.B. Yeats, who throughout his pe...