Mr Pizzi was asked to operate on the black bear by the charity, Free the Bears.

BBC: Pioneering surgery for moon bear by Edinburgh vet

The procedure was carried out in Vietnam by Edinburgh Zoo vet Romain Pizzi, the only UK vet specialising in zoo and wildlife keyhole surgery.

BBC: Pioneering surgery for moon bear by Edinburgh vet

It helps immeasurably, of course, that Mr. Lane is giving the kind of richly realized performance of which playwrights dream he's never been better and that Mr. O'Brien's staging, enhanced by the period choreography of Joey Pizzi, is both pointed and authoritative.

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