The new show, written and directed by Eugene O’Hare, has opened at the Omnibus Theatre in Clapham. We’ve covered a couple of Eugene O’Hare’s plays before – The Weatherman and Sydney and the Old Girl – both of which were dark comedies wrestling with tricky subject matter.
The Human Connection is not dissimilar in tone, though the format is unusual. It is in fact two short plays: a monologue entitled Larry Devlin Wants to Talk to You About Something That Happened, and then after the interval, a two-hander called Child 786.
The former stars Stephen Kennedy as Larry, as he shares his memory of the time he hit his son – it’s a difficult watch that explores the ongoing guilt and grief at his actions.