HOORS

by Gregory Burke
Traverse Theatre Company and the Ustinov, Bath in association with the Tron Theatre, Glasgow present the world premiere of Hoors

Small Town, Fife.
Andy and Vicky were going to get married tomorrow.

Trouble is, Andy’s stag weekend was so epic, so legendary, he didn’t make it to his own wedding. The finest pleasures that Amsterdam and Hamburg can offer finally put paid to him getting to the altar. Drink, drugs and a final Mile High fling with a budget airline stewardess bring him down to earth with a bump.

Now it’s time for the postmortem as Vicky, her sister Nikki and his mates Tony and Stevie piece together what happened then and where they go now.

Gregory Burke’s Hoors is a wickedly black comedy about a group of twenty-thirtysomethings who wake up and find the party’s over.

Gregory Burke’s debut Gagarin Way premiered at the Traverse in 2001 to enormous critical and audience acclaim. His most recent work Black Watch (National Theatre of Scotland) is the most successful Scottish play of recent times and since its 2006 premiere as part of the Traverse’s Festival programme has toured nationally and internationally.

Jimmy Fay was most recently acting Literary Director of the Abbey Theatre, Dublin and is the Artistic Director of Bedrock Productions. His productions at the Abbey have included Sam Shepherd’s Ages of the Moon, The Seafarer by Conor McPherson and Saved by Edward Bond for which he won Best Director at the Irish Times Theatre Awards 2007.