The Gut Girls
Performed by graduating students from Guildford School of Acting
- When?
- Wednesday 21 November 2012 to Saturday 24 November 2012, 19:30 (Wed-Sat), 14:30 (Sat only)
- Where?
- The Mill Studio at Guildford’s Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Millbrook, Guildford, GU1 3UX
- Open to:
- Public, Staff, Students
- Admission price:
- £10, £5 students, concessions
- Admission information:
- The Mill Studio Box Office: T:01483 440000 www.yvonne-arnaud.co.uk
The Gut Girls of Victorian London are a rowdy bunch – with language that would stagger a horse and muscles that could floor a man. They spend their days knee deep in blood and entrails in the freezing, contaminated gutting shed, lifting carcasses twice their size. But they earn in a week what a girl in service earns in a year. In the pubs and music halls of Deptford they are notorious for loud laughter, outrageous hats and wearing no knickers. No man would touch them with a barge pole.
Lady Helena, Duchess of Albany, with her terrified sidekick Prescilla Cuttle-Smythe, is on a mission to civilise them. But will her Girls Club improve the lot of the Gut Girls or are they better off left to their own business?
The young actors from GSA bring humour and energy to this funny, moving and vigorous celebration of women’s fighting spirit.
Written by Sarah Daniels, Directed by Lucy Richardson
This amateur production is presented by arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH LTD
Photo credit Steve Porter
“A weird and wondrous black comedy.”
The Spectator