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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Mark Fisher

Guffy review – twisty tale of motherhood

Abrasive … Georgia Blue Ireland, left, with Ceit Kearney in Guffy.
Abrasive … Georgia Blue Ireland, left, with Ceit Kearney in Guffy. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

Many people hate spoilers. If you’re one of them please look away now. Because it is hard not to talk about Glenna Morrison’s play without saying how weird the ending is.

What we get until the closing moments is a non-story about a single mother, Guffy, who is lured away from her infant daughter to party with friends for the night. She leaves the child with her bedridden adoptive mother, Alba. That the older woman is scarcely able to look after herself is a warning sign. On Guffy’s return home to Alloa from Glasgow, she finds her daughter dead and takes her anger out on Alba.

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