Shiver

(Paperback)

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A brand new play by an established young Irish writer

We all have to work hard these days that's just the way it is." A new executive breed is emerging in a quarry on the outskirts of Dublin - where once there was a sense of history and socialism, the corporate moguls have enslaved the idealists and turned them into entrepreneurs. Whilst Marion is an ad exec on the make, Kevin is the house-husband with the baby and time to nurture his much-vaunted creative powers. But when the bottom falls out of the market for their dot-com neighbour Richard, an economic squall threatens to sink their fragile emotional prosperity."Declan Hughes has a keen eye for absurdity, a quirky sense of humour and a knack for making acrimony amusing while not underrating the seriousness of the issues." The Times

Published to tie in with opening directed by Lynne Parker for Rough Magic at the Project Arts Centre, Dublin

Praise for Declan Hughes' writing: "savagely comic", "compelling", "darkly funny

Author Bio

Declan Hughes is co-founder of Rough Magic. He was originally joint Artistic Director, before becoming Writer-in-Residence for several years. His writing for Rough Magic includes I Can't Get Started (winner of the Stewart Parker Trust Award); an adaptation of Farquhar's Love and a Bottle (joint winner of Time Out Best Play Award), Digging for Fire (joint winner of Time Out Best Play Award), New Morning, Halloween Night, Twenty Grand, and an adaptation of Moliere's Tartuffe.