Rum and Monkey Productions

Set in South East London, 'The Gut Girls' revolves around five feisty women working in the stinking pit that is the gutting sheds. Up to their elbows in entrails and trotters for thirteen hours a day, the working conditions are merciless. Despite what the foreman thinks, they are the rulers of this bloody realm and masters of their own destinies.
The 'gut girls' are raucous, boisterous, have mouths like sailors and are as strong as the pigs they gut, yet they are financially independent to a degree; rare for young working-class women in Edwardian England. With a reputation for hard drinking and unruliness, the women are viewed as being no better than whores. Enter Lady Helena, an aristocrat on a mission to teach the gut girls some manners and make them acceptable enough to be employed as household maids. The result is total surrender of their independence, spirit and way of life.

With a collective background of physical theatre, Shakespeare, a European tour and an BBC pilot between them, 'The Gut Girls' promises to be a theatrical experience not to be missed.