Crestfall
By: Mark O'Rowe
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Copyright date: 2015
Description: Olive Day sleeps around with any man she can find, though she never charges. Married to the volatile Jungle, she also has a secret lovechild with the local pimp, Inchy Bassey. Alison Ellis is married to the Bru but struggles to connect with him and tires of her lonely existence. Thirdly, drug-addled prostitute Tilly, forced into a botched abortion by Inchy because of his situation with Olive, decides to let the town know the truth about their secret child, leading to a devastating and bloody finale. It was first performed at the Gate Theatre, Dublin, on 20 May 2003.