circus

The composition’s frantic strings and minor chords cleverly emphasize the brilliance of Oliphant’s cartoons depicting the circus of the politically obscene.

Millar: We had a whole backstory for him, which is he was in a circus and he fell in love with a circus performer.

"To be honest, what we experience here is basically just one big circus. What we see is that border defence here is mostly a show, a political performance."

Set in 1915, the story features twins who escape the clutches of a serial killer and find a haven among a group of so-called “circus freaks,” including a two-headed woman and dog-faced boy.

A small circus had been erected and a bull ring constructed of wooden posts and leaves.