Overview

Written by award-winning playwright Paddy Campbell (Wet House), Day of the Flymo looks at the lives of young people deemed to be chaotic, a brother and sister struggling to cover up the cracks and the mechanisms that swing into action when social services step in.

Based on his own experience working in a children’s home, Paddy Campbell’s Day of the Flymo asks what do you do when the state decides it’s going to take over from your Mam?