"Pumpgirl" is written by the multi-award winning Abbie Spallon
Abbie Spallen’s acclaimed dark comedy, Pumpgirl, is coming to Garter Lane Arts Centre on May 22nd as part of an eleven-venue national tour. It is presented by Decadent Theatre Company and directed by Andrew Flynn. For info on tickets you'll find out more here .
What's the play about
Pumpgirl is a turbo-charged race through the diesel fumes and country music of the Co. Armagh badlands. The grimly comic play takes audiences deep into the unspoken thoughts and darkest desires of three damaged characters living on ‘the wrong side’ of the bleak and boggy border. They are destined to collide, with explosive results.
Decadent Theatre Company
Galway-based Decadent, under the leadership of Artistic Director Andrew Flynn, strives to bring theatre out of urban centres and into Ireland’s often overlooked towns. It is especially fitting, then, that a rural outpost is the setting for Abbie Spallen’s Pumpgirl.
Pumpgirl has been staged on Broadway, in London, Edinburgh, Belfast, Finland, Chicago, Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia. Yet it has been seen in the Republic of Ireland only once, when Andrew Flynn directed it for the Galway International Arts Festival in 2017.
The cast and and writer of Pumpgirl
It stars Jolene O’Hara as Pumpgirl, Patrick Ryan as Hammie, and Seona Tully as Sinead.
Writer of the play Abbie Spallon is multi-award winning. She has received the Blackburn Prize, the Stewart Parker Award, the Dublin Corporation Bursary for Literature, and the Windham Campbell Prize for literary achievement from Yale University.
She is currently working on commissions for the Abbey Theatre, Dublin; the Lyric Theatre, Belfast; Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh; and Working Title Productions.
If you enjoy live theatre, have a listen here to Bonnie Boux talk about Making a Holy Show of Yerself
And here's Abbie Spallon talking to me about Pumpgirl
https://soundcloud.com/wlrfmwaterford/abbie-spallons-pumpgirl-comes-to-garter-lane-on-may-22nd?in=wlrfmwaterford/sets/on-the-fringe-with-mary-oneill
