Running Backwards
Nick Forshaw
Written by Nick Forshaw, multi award winning writer / director and creator of the cult comedy JEB animations.
Performed by Stuart Organ. Directed by Alix Cazalet. Produced by Steve Manley @ Barefoot Ape Ltd.
A rambling comic journal documenting the author’s kak-handed investigation into the death of a student thirty years previously, for which he might, or might perhaps not, be culpable.
The author, a fustian middle-aged misanthrope, who hides behind a series of infantile pseudonyms - Tim Cruise, Bryan Reynolds - is foundering in the wake of his wife’s death, fatigued by his own mediocrity and struggling to accept his progressive irrelevance in the life of his beloved but vinegary daughter.
A series of increasingly compelling dreams begin to hint at the memory of murder, and a developing paranoia delivers him into the questionable care of a has-been celebrity therapist, who quickly hands his intimate revelations to a pernicious barrow-boy book agent speciali