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IN THE WAY OUT, a young woman — the Outsider — takes refuge in the seemingly empty Battersea Arts Centre at night and meets a mysterious guide who offers them an alternative way out.
Omid Djalili is the guide through the enchantment of the arts centre as he leads the silent Outsider (Blaithin Mac Gabhann), whose sombre garb and expression suggests the need for enlightenment or, at least, invigoration.
Djalili, dressed in an impressario’s red hat and coat, walks her through the labyrinth of the art centre’s rooms and corridors, past peeling walls and bared pipes, its romantic glory a reminder of the fire that devastated the building just five years ago.
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