11/08/2016
We got disqualified in Round One when Kay threw up during the Vaughan Williams. And Our Ladies got a five-year ban from the competition. In one way we got what we wanted, but as we went back on the bus, Kay sat there pregnant, Manda trying to get over that Kay had slept with her sister, all of us already hungover, it really started to dawn on us: we were in dire fu***ng trouble…This is our lives and we’re young and we’re h***y as f**k – sod the wanking nuns and sod wer parents, what do they know? We’re us, and we’re alive here and now. I say stuff it, girls – if we are gonna get expelled, let’s make a fu***ng night of it.
Our Ladies Of Perpetual Succour is an expectation-smashing triumph. As satirical and realistic and insightful as Trainspotting or any number of plays which examine and celebrate the rebellious, conflicted and downtrodden male, Our Ladies Of Perpetual Succour is just as horrifying, funny and brave -…
