ALMOST FACE TO FACE

by Stephen House

Written during an Irish Literature Residency, Almost Face to Face takes a risky journey into a hidden Dublin world. Moving, brutal, dark and funny, this new work about indulgent creative chaos and lives on-the-very-edge, asks – is it ever too late to finally face up to what you have become?

“House’s hotwired poetry evokes a liminal world of damaged souls locked in a struggle between pleasure and survival, hedonism and desperation… It’s lurid and confronting, ultimately touching theatre populated by sex workers and drunks, violent drug addicts and battered youth, anonymous gay liaisons and underground ice parties.” – Cameron Woodhead, The Age