Spare Ribs looking for spare actors for meaty comic roles

By Nan Mackenzie

EDINBURGH Festival award-winning, Paphos-based writer, actor and director Kathleen Ruddy is planning a new production and is calling on home-grown comedy actors to act in her new play Spare Ribs this October.

Fans of Ruddy’s work will fondly remember her classic take on a Cypriot psychotic mother called Athenoulla in her 2012 play The Devil wears Primark, and her Edinburgh Festival award-winning creation titled Sex Chips and Ouzo which has now been elevated to the  screenplay stage.

Her new production, Spare Ribs, is set in an Irish butchers shop, just after the ‘Horse gate scandal’. And it’s here we meet pensioners Rita and Nancy whose shop is slowly but surely going belly up. Rita is still reeling from her husband running off with the bacon slicer and the only copy of Rita’s prize winning sausage recipe. Revenge is on the cards as both women, along with pregnant teenager Maggie, decide to put the only female-run butchers shop on the prime cuts map by reclaiming the Best Sausage trophy.

Unfortunately Rita has been steadily drowning her sorrows in a variety of alcoholic beverages and cannot remember the exact ingredients that went into making her prize bangers. Fate steps in after they decide to advertise their butchery services in the local newspaper, only for the paper to misprint a certain line. This then sets the women off onto a different but certainly complimentary niche business which offers the now classic storyline recipe of love, sex and sausages.

In 2013 audiences enjoyed Ruddy’s production of Death of a Playboy and were introduced to the combined talents of funny men Mark Mc Donnell and John Ritchie. Ruddy is now on the lookout for more comedy actors to play in Spare Ribs. Ruddy is also seeking a production assistant. Commercial sponsorship would also be welcomed, as would an old sausage making machine!

 

Contact Kathleen Ruddy 99 069074 [email protected]

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