JOHN O'DONOVAN is a London-based playwright from Co. Clare, Ireland. His new play Flights – which opens in Dublin this week after a short run in his home-town of Ennis, and transfers to the Omnibus Theatre, Clapham, in February – looks at a generation that has been shaped by austerity. Here, he discusses the inspiration … Continue reading ‘Starting sombre, ending wild’: John O’Donovan on a generation afflicted by austerity, in his new play Flights