Lally the Scut

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'The child's down a hole, the mother's up to high doh, the town's up in arms and humanity's down the drain.'

Uproarious, occasionally macabre and always compelling, Lally the Scut draws a line in the mud for Northern Ireland.

'They say the child was tempted down with toys and slices of teddy-bear ham.'

Abbie Spallen's Lally the Scut premiered at the MAC, Belfast, in a Tinderbox production in April 2015.

Author Bio

Abbie Spallen's plays include Abeyance (Druid), Pumpgirl (Bush/Traverse/Manhattan Theatre Club), which won the 2007 Susan Smith Blackburn Award, the Stewart Parker Award and was nominated for the Irish Times Best New Play, Strandline (Fishamble) which was shortlisted for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award and nominated for the Meyer Whitworth Award, and Bogwog (NPC at O'Neill Centre Connecticut) and Lally the Scut(Tinderbox/Belfast). Her short plays include Thirteen (Women in Power and Politics, Tricycle Theatre), Shaving the Pickle (59E59 NYC) and Rubberfoot (Pentabus).