Skinny is sent to plant a flag on the tallest unlit bonfire in East Belfast on 11th night - the annual celebration of King William of Orange's victory in 1690.

While he’s up there something akin to an epiphany befalls him. Is it something to do with the height, or the momentousness of the occasion that so impresses the wide-eyed young Skinny? Echoes from his Bible assault him. From the top of his bonfire, he recalls the Temptation of Christ and the Tower of Babble and he can't resist casting himself centre-stage in these epic ventures. Is there any real difference in the exaltation felt by those biblical heroes and what he feels now? And if not, why should he ever come back down to earth? Except of course that a baying mob wants to light their bonfire - he is preventing the party from getting started.

The closer it gets to midnight, the angrier the crowd gets, and the harder it is for Skinny come down.
This piece promises to be a rich mixture of the sounds of the Belfast street and the voices of biblical antiquity and beyond. Working in tandem with award winning composer Gordon Delap, Glenn will describe the arc of an urban reject's transcendence - into a world in which dervishes and those speaking in tongues would not be out of place. They will create a landscape in which Skinny - victim of paramilitary justice and an impoverished homelife, finds light, space and sound, and something like the creation of a new, more tolerable place to live.

As with all Glenn’s work, there is humour and a highly imaginative sideways look at this world - much more than a look at Northern Irish Protestantism - but rather like his latest novel That Which Was - a wonderful mix of the familiar and the unexpected - in all those local characters he knows so well.