Poor Rabbits?
Told by the hapless Lagomorphs at the heart of Alasdair Gray’s Poor Things.
An untold, grass-roots view of godlike creatures and Victorian medical experimentation, decoded by archival synaptic technology. Did God do a bad thing?
Explore our interactive story and decide for yourself…
Use the video play bar to show subtitles and make the video full screen. Or explore Poor Rabbits in an alternative format if the interactive version doesn’t work for you. Accessible version.
So did God do a bad thing to our poor rabbits?
Should Godwin Baxter return the rabbits to their original form - or is it kinder to keep them as they are?
This is the verdict so far…
Two wrongs don’t make a right – leave the poor rabbits as they are.
Try to repair the damage - return the poor rabbits to their natural state.
Experimentation is essential to progress – try operating on the rabbits again.
Why stop now – forget about the rabbits and move on to bigger beings.
Credits and thanks…
Written by Anita Sullivan
Narrated by James Mutch
Created by A Gray Space
Music by Pixabay
Sound effects by Pixabay
Special thanks to Stornaway.io
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Poor Things: Monstrously good fun
Enjoy more personal perspectives on Poor Things and Alasdair’s other novels.
A Gray’s place
After Alasdair Gray died his flat was cleared and sold. But you can still visit it.
External links…
You can hear Alasdair reading and talking about Poor Things and other books on our Alasdair Gray Space YouTube channel.
Anita Sullivan is a playwright whose many adaptations for stage and radio include Janet Frame’s An Angel at my Table, Lionel Shriver’s We Need to Talk About Kevin and Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.