Flights and Sink: Two Plays

Two plays about contemporary life in rural Ireland, from award winning writer John O'Donovan. Flights is a haunting, hilarious play about bereavement, brotherhood and breaking away from your past. Expecting a crowd and tearing into the cans, three men slowly realise they're the only ones coming. Caught in the wake of their lingering grief, they must confront their receding youth, their uncertain futures, and the ghost that has held them together. Flights is premiered at Clapham Omnibus, London, in February 2020. Also included in this volume is his earlier play Sink, an evocative, experimental play about memory, secrets and sacrifice. Summer. Heatwave. City's like a pressure cooker. Country boglands crack open, revealing secrets long buried. Bra d's coming home to convalesce. Ciara's headed west too, investigating a potential archaeological site. But as they arrive in the village, they find peace elusive. Sink premiered at Dublin Festival Fringe in 2019.