Nobody Will Ever Forgive Us

Produced by the National Theatre of Scotland as part of its Debuts Season in autumn 2008. 'Pugnaciously funny ...The principle cause of the friction is the family's father, a back-seat socialist and bar-room poet whose authoritarian hold over his wife and grown-up children is a front to disguise his being a pathetic alcoholic.' Guardian 'Alcohol, religion, socialist rhetoric, gambling and familial subjects come together with purpose, honesty and vividness of first-hand experience to offer insight into what it is to grow up in a working-class, Catholic Scots family.' Financial Times

The 'pugnaciously funny' debut play by Scottish writer/actor Paul Higgins looking at religion, booze and gambling in one dysfunctional Scottish Catholic familyPatrick comes home unexpectedly from the seminary and older brother Johnny's not slow to tap him for money. Mum is suspicious, Dad seems indifferent, and pissed, and little sister Cath is distracted and medicated. Nobody Will Ever Forgive Us is the story of a family under siege. Living on their wits and stalked by violence, they defend themselves with the blackest of humour. The play was produced as part of the National Theatre of Scotland/Traverse Theatre's Debuts season and premiered at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh in November 2008. 'A keen sense of theatrical dynamics, vigorous dialogue and ready wit.' Guardian