The Friday Night Effect

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Meet Jamie, Sadhbh and Collette: three best friends on a wild night out in Dublin. By the end of the night, Collette will be dead. Can you save her The Friday Night Effect combines compelling new writing with an edge-of-your-seat interactive experience. At crucial turning points in the story, the fate of the characters will be in the hands of the audience, whose decisions will change their stories irrevocably. Funny, insightful and provocative, this interactive piece is a brand new play by Eva O'Connor (Maz and Bricks, Overshadowed) and Hildegard Ryan. Published to coincide with the premiere production at The Assembly George Square Studios at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2017.

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A dark, insightful, sometimes funny portrayal of eating disorders * The Irish Times on Overshadowed *
An enlightening and heartbreaking piece of theatre that opens the eyes of its audience * Edinburgh Festival Magazine *
[L]ively and absorbing * Scotsman *

Author Bio

Eva OConnor is an Irish writer and performer based in London. Founder of Sundays Child Theatre Company, she has written and produced multiple plays with the company. Her one-woman show My Name is Saoirse won the First Fortnight Award at the Dublin Fringe 2014 and the Argus Angel at the Brighton Fringe 2015. It was also adapted for RTE Radio 1, and was broadcast in their Drama on One slot in April 2015. Eva O'Connor was part of the Traverse young writers group and selected for the Traverse 50 in 2014. Her play Overshadowed about a young girls struggle with anorexia premiered at the Dublin Fringe in September 2015 and won the Fishamble New Writing Award. She also has an MA in theatre ensemble from Rose Bruford drama school.