Sydney & the Old Girl

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.

Eugene O'Hare is an accomplished Irish actor and writer. His works include Hospital Foodfor the National Theatre Connections Festival, Only Good People Love Bach,and Rage.Two plays, Sydney and the Old Girland The Weatherman,will open in London in 2019. He has worked with the Abbey Theatre and with Channel 4 Drama as part of the "4Screenwriters" placement. Eugene also writes for radio and has written two short stories for BBC Radio 4. His short film The Music Roompremiered at the Galway Film Fleadh, and he is developing original work for television.