The Bald Monkey

An anarchic black comedy of denial, anger, obsession, revenge and extremely poor judgement 

Seven years after losing his wife, Henry still grieves. Her body was never recovered, and Henry, a photographer who lives in the idealised snapshots of his past, stubbornly maintains she's just missing. Now his estranged sister-in-law, Marion, re-enters his life to finally have her sister declared legally dead. 

Local gallery owner Sonia 'Groucho' K discovers who was responsible for the tragedy. Wounded by a recent betrayal she sees an opportunity for vengeance-by-proxy. She leads Henry and 'Dizzy' Des, a former convict with a kind heart but a hair-trigger temper, on an elaborate mission to disappear the culprit. 

The trio conspire in their regular watering hole, The Bald Monkey, and their plan becomes increasingly absurd. Meanwhile, Henry rekindles his once close friendship with Marion, the only remotely level-headed member of the ensemble, and she sets out to bring him back from the brink of disaster. 

About the Author 

Dickon Levinge was born in Dublin. An enthusiastic photographer, at age five he took his first photograph with his mother’s godmother’s Rolleiflex Twin Lens f2.8. That image of his grandparents’ house framed by the bow of a spruce pine still hangs in the hallway of his mother’s home today. 

Dickon attended film school at USC and UCLA in California and worked for 30 years as a screenwriter and script doctor in the film industry in LA, Dublin, and later, London. 

For the last 13 years he has lived on a narrowboat in the waterways of London and the southeast. The Good Ship Junie is named after his mother’s godmother whose Rolleiflex he borrowed for his first photograph.