ZERO DOWN to Play Edinburgh Fringe

Watch what happens when three complex individuals driven by different emotions collide.

Award winning playwright Sarah Hehir's stage play, Zero Down, about three zero hours contract workers at a rundown care home, illuminates the different sides of humanity.

This all female production presented by Angel on the Corner Theatre Company, takes audiences into the pressure cooker lives of three complex co-workers as they begin their late shift in the basement of Silver Apples Care Home; and so begins a night of dishonesty, aggression and betrayal as underlying tensions between the overworked nurses and their patients erupt.

Rather than a morality tale, audiences will be riveted as they observe Benni the bully and bigot (Katherine Hurley), Leyla the dreamer (Emma Fisher) and Erin the new "intern" (Sadie Tonks), behave badly and do things they'd never do themselves but find deliciously mesmerising to watch. Preconceptions will be challenged in this fast paced social and politically drawn drama punctuated by surprising revelations and flashes of dark comedy.

Actress, producer and Angel on the Corner Theatre Company founder, Katherine Hurley says "Zero Down was borne out of months of research into the social and psychological impact of precariousness at work, mostly typified in the introduction of zero-hour contracts across most sectors of employment. With a starting point of personal experiences and research we worked with charity Housing Justice to collate testimonies of people who have worked in precarious conditions in various places of work including care homes; the setting for this play."

Sarah Hehir writes drama and poetry. In 2013, she won the BBC Writers Prize for her Radio 4 drama Bang Up broadcast in 2013 and 2016. Her first stage play Child Z was selected for the Arcola Playwrought Festival (Jan 2015) and produced at Southwark Playhouse (June 2015) Zero Down had a run at Theatre 503 (August 2015). Children's TV pilot Dark was shortlisted for CCBC New Voices in 2015. Her short plays have been staged at Park Theatre, Southwark Playhouse and The Old Red Lion Theatre. Sarah is currently on the BBC TV Drama Writers' Programme.

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