Sydney & the Old Girl

by Eugene O'Hare

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350130005
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	01/08/2020
Series:	Modern Plays
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	112
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Eugene O'Hare is a writer and actor. He has written for National Theatre Connections and short stories for BBC Radio 4. In 2017 he penned the BBC short film The Music Room featuring the Ulster Orchestra. He is currently developing original work for theatre, television and film.Sydney&the Old Girl and The Weatherman are his debut full length plays- both published by Bloomsbury in 2019. Eugene is a member of Field Day Theatre Company. He lives in London.
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.