How to Disappear Completely and Never be Found by Fin Kennedy – Playreading (2026)

Thank you Jeremy for hosting a wonderful Playreading on 18 January 2026… How To Disappear Completely And Never Be Found by Fin Kennedy. 

“What makes you who you are? A name? An address? A random collection of experiences, a few memories?…You are who you can prove you are. You are what people think. And that’s the easiest thing in the world to change.”

This award-winning play follows one man’s desperate attempts to buck the system, and asks what really makes us who we are in the 21st century. When a young executive reaches breaking point and decides to disappear, he pays a visit to a master of the craft in the form of a seafront fortune teller in Southend. Haunted by visitations from a pathologist who swears he is already lying flat out on her slab, he begins a nightmarish journey to the edge of existence that sees him stripped of everything that made him who he was.

Fin Kennedy’s play How To Disappear Completely and Never Be Found won the 2005 Arts Council’s John Whiting Award and was subsequently staged at the Crucible Studio, Sheffield, in March 2007

This event will be hosted by Jeremy McCowatt and will take place in the Büchersalon at MUCCA.

This event was free for Entity Members, non-members pay 5€.

Photo credit: Kate Denis-Smith