Acclaimed Belfast-based writer Christopher Owens returns with his most searing and psychologically incisive work to date, Soviet Hotel Dressing Gown — a novel of fractured memories, parallel lives, and the silent aftermath of trauma. Set against the backdrop of two diverted flights into Dublin Airport, the book follows two strangers, Jake and Roibeard, who never speak and never realise how closely their internal storms mirror one another. As each man confronts the shadows of his past — the wounds that shaped him, the choices that scarred him, and the future that awaits once they finally reach Belfast — Owens crafts a dual narrative that is both intimate and monumental. Soviet Hotel Dressing Gown explores how trauma lingers in the body, how cities carve themselves into their inhabitants, and how two lives can run parallel without ever intersecting, bound by the same unspoken ache.
- Friday 27th November
- 8:00pm
- Accidental Theatre, 12-13 Shaftesbury Square, Belfast, BT2 7DB
- Price: Free
More information and tickets: https://accidentaltheatre.co.uk/box-office/soviet-hotel-dressing-gown
