Lally The Scut by Abbie Spallen

Roisin Gallagher in Abbie Spallen’s Lally The Scut. Photo credit: Ciaran Bagnall

In 2015 Abbie Spallen’s Lally the Scut with a cast of 12 leading local actors was the culmination of a 6 year programme dedicated to presenting new writing of the highest quality on the main stages in Northern Ireland. 

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. Twelve of our finest local actors bring Abbie Spallen’s unflinching satire to shocking, outrageous life. With the largest cast to date on the MAC stage, this is the biggest theatre moment of the year. A powerful drama – earthy, irreverent, honest, disturbing, forceful and funny. See it or regret it.

Writer: Abbie Spallen
Director: Michael Duke
Cast: Roisin Gallagher, Michael Condron, Carol Moore, Frank McCusker, Richard Clements, Alan McKee, Vincent Higgins, Gerard McCabe, Miche Doherty, Tara, Lynne O’Neill, Maria Connolly & Tony Flynn

Abbie was one of 2016’s recipients of Yale University’s Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes – a major literary award recognising literary achievement and financially nurturing talent: 

“I am delighted that one of the plays singled out by the judging panel was my most recent, LALLY THE SCUT. It is very important to me that this play had its world premiere with Tinderbox Theatre Company and the MAC in Northern Ireland in front of a Northern Irish audience. I am beyond grateful to Hanna Slattne and Mick Duke at Tinderbox for championing this play and treating it with the utmost grace and respect.”