The Melancholic Wife and her Perpetrating Husband emerged out of the ongoing sequential work of Splitting Borders. It came from a desire to explore narratives in a short story format and examining the use / misuse of simplistic labels to try to describe the complexity of a whole person.

Each episode centres alternately on the wife and then the husband, the scripts were solely written by Sadhbh Lawlor and there have been seven episodes to date. The first four episodes were DIY published in zine form in 2015.

Episode 1

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