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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.
