Sheep Love To Die

Longlisted for the Theatre 503 International Playwright's Award 2020 in a previous version - then known as 'The Derelict Sisters'

“I feel like we’ve been shifted sideways. Here but not. Slid invisibly out from somewhere to somewhere else. Slipped out of the loop. The gears no longer engaged. Like we're freewheeling.”

• Evelyn and Constance are two elderly sisters quietly living their own lives until suddenly, on one fateful afternoon, their world is shaken by events.
• But, have Evelyn and Constance always been, out of sync with the world and each other?
• The Derelict Sisters is something of a meditation on life and death. The question…Is Death something to fear? Or is ‘Living’ more often the problem?
• Janey has a dream, but is it shared by Steve, and will his loyalty to Daz bring her brave, new world crashing down?
• ‘The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there’ but the consequences can live long after. Will Evelyn, Constance, Steve and Darren choose to ignore or confront their past?
• Pat Kavanagh is a man who has dedicated himself to business and making money through any means necessary. But does his public face mask a real sense of personal grief and private pain?
• Can Radio 4 really be the key to understanding ‘Life, the Universe and Everything’?
• ‘Time is a great healer’, they say. But is it a straight line, a curve or, indeed, a loop?