This talent for finding light in life’s shadows first earned Mr Eno serious attention in 2005, with the New York debut of “Thom Pain (based on nothing)”. An extended monologue, delivered by a “skinny, wounded” man in a shabby suit, it is full of the patter of someone who is just old enough to be burdened with regrets but not so old as to be without hope. “You really are very forgiving”, Thom Pain tells the audience, “to let me get lost like this.” In a breathless review, Charles Isherwood of the New York Times anointed Mr Eno “a Samuel Beckett for the Jon Stewart generation”. The play was a finalist for the Pulitzer prize, marking a turning point in Mr Eno’s career. Yet he still lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and helps support himself by painting houses and other odd jobs.
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