OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Abbie Spallen 

• Synopsis

  Pumpgirl works in a small garage in a border town of south Armagh, on the wrong side of the exchange rate. A tom girl who thinks she’s one of the lads becomes obsessed with local racetrack star ‘No Helmet’ Hammy. Hammy’s embittered wife Sinead has been left nursing a stomach like ‘a bag of onions’ after two pregnancies whilst he spends the nights out racing with the boys.

  A darkly comic story emerges from the interwoven monologues as the play takes us deep into the unspoken thoughts and darkest desires of three lives destined to collide.

• Play Type

  Plays General

• Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

• Cast Size Male

  1

• Cast Size Female

  2

ORIGINAL PRODUCTION

• Date of First Production

  07 August 2006

• Production

  Produced by The Bush Theatre

• Original Venue

  Traverse Theatre

• Irish Premiere Notes

  Pumpgirl received its Irish premiere at the Lyric Theatre in August 2008.

• Venue Notes

  The Bush Theatre's world premiere production of Pumpgirl opened at Traverse Theatre as the 2006 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and subsequently received its London priemere at The Bush Theatre on 12 September 2006.

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