Pumpgirl
From: Tuesday, 12th September 2006
To: Saturday, 14 October 2006
Our Review: 
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Synopsis
Borderlands and badlands: we're in the North but only just. Pumpgirl is an explosive tale of drink, dirty love and country music set on the wrong side of a fluctuating exchange rate.
Our Review:
14 September 2006
Bold and enticing, Abbie Spallen's play for three voices is given a compelling production at the Bush. This is a delightful opportunity for the actors to use all their storytelling skills to create the small-town border community in badlands Armagh, and bring out the triangular relationship between petrol attendant, Pumpgirl, bragging stock-car racer Hammy, and mousy, trapped housewife, Sinead.
The play is told in a succession of first person narratives which reveal, with a subtle regard for timing, the relationships between the three characters on stage. And, while gradually building up pictures of them as they are seen by each other, also create a suite of characters who are only ever talked about.
Orla Fitzgerald stars as Pumpgirl. A somehow anonymous tomboy figure, her garage is just on the wrong side of the border, so that only the foolhardy stop for the petrol which attracts less duty just a few hundred yards down the road. She has sneering eyes for all but Hammy,...
Creative
Abbie Spallen (Author)
Bush Theatre (Producer)
Mike Bradwell (Director)
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