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Pumpgirl: Directed by Carol Moore. With Gerard Murphy, Geraldine Hughes, Richard Dormer, Samantha Heaney. Abbie Spallen's fiercely observed, unflinching drama explores the dangerously intertwined lives of ordinary people trying to escape their humdrum existence in a rural Irish town.
Abbie Spallen's fiercely observed, unflinching drama explores the dangerously intertwined lives of ordinary people trying to escape their humdrum existence...
The tomboyish Pumpgirl (Labhaoise Magee) who works in a small-town gas station in Northern Ireland, dreams of Hammy (Hamish Allan-Headley), a reckless car lover.
“Pumpgirl” is hardly the most original play to arrive from Ireland lately. But Abbie Spallen’s penetrating language and unsentimental view place it among the most powerful.
In this gripping play from one of Ireland’s brightest new talents, playwright Abbie Spallen shapes a startling tale of three lives colliding in rural Ireland. The play unfolds with the story of a homely, tomboyish pump girl at a rundown gas station.
The title Pumpgirl (Magee), a mannish woman working at a petrol station (known stateside as a gas station), has a severe crush on local macho man Hammy. To some measure, Hammy has time for the Pumpgirl, but he is hardly as serious about the fling as she wishes he would be.
The strength of Abbie Spallen’s “Pumpgirl,” currently running at Irish Rep’s W. Scott McLucas Studio Theatre, lies in the playwright’s authentic characters and their believable conflicts that connect to the timeless vicissitudes of the human condition.
