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London is becoming an alien landscape to Sydney Stock; a man who has lived for over fifty years cooped with his mother Nell in her grubby East End home. Theirs is a relationship of mutually assured destruction where the ghosts of the past continue to stalk and accuse. As the twisted game around family inheritance reaches breaking point, Irish care worker Marion Fee finds herself an unwitting pawn being played from both sides.
At the centre of Eugene O'Hare's second full-length black comedy is a family's obsession with versions of the past and a paranoia about a future in a city which no longer feels like home.
This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at Park Theatre, London in November 2019.
About the author
Eugene O'Hare is an Irish actor and writer. His debut full-length plays,
Sydney & the Old Girl and
The Weatherman, premiered to critical & public acclaim at the Park Theatre in 2019. His third full-length play,
The Dry House, opens at the Marylebone Theatre in London in 2023. Commissioned work includes
Hospital Food for the National Theatre Connections Festival. He has written short stories for BBC Radio 4- most recently
The Poet and the Echo read by Caitríona Balfe. He is currently commissioned by ITV and is in active development on projects for film. He was shortlisted for the 2021 poetry prize at Belfast Book Festival and the 2022 Fish Poetry Prize. He is working towards a first collection.
Summary
London is becoming an alien landscape to Sydney Stock; a man who has lived for over fifty years cooped with his mother Nell in her grubby East End home. Theirs is a relationship of mutually assured destruction where the ghosts of the past continue to stalk and accuse. As the twisted game around family inheritance reaches breaking point, Irish care worker Marion Fee finds herself an unwitting pawn being played from both sides.
At the centre of Eugene O'Hare's second full-length black comedy is a family's obsession with versions of the past and a paranoia about a future in a city which no longer feels like home.
This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at Park Theatre, London in November 2019.
Foreword
A sharp and poignant black comedy about a mother and son cooped up in a shabby East London house where tempers fray and memories are short.
