Cherry Jezebel writer Jonathan Larkin on his hilarious and heart-breaking new play
For Liverpool writer Jonathan Larkin, it’s the stories of people’s everyday lives which really matter. “It’s everyday lives impacted by bigger things,” he explains. “You tell a small, intimate story but suddenly it has a universal truth to it, so people identify with it, and it becomes a bigger story.” It’s what the 40-year-old did in his debut play, the comedy Paradise Bound, set in Dingle and which embraced the zeitgeist of the city’s dynamic build up to Capital of Culture.