MADF One Act Festival of Plays
March 2026
Erin Arts Centre, Port Erin

AETF Northern Area Semi Final
Saltburn Community Theatre
Sunday 3rd May 2026

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These notes are to provide a little more background information to the play
than we are able to fit in the paper programme

Blood of the Lamb

by Arlene Hutton

The Playwright:

Arlene Hutton is best known as the author of The Nibroc Trilogy, which includes
Last Train to Nibroc (Drama League of New York's Best Play nomination),
See Rock City (McLean Foundation's "In the Spirit of America" Award) and
Gulf View Drive (LA Weekly and Ovation Award nominations).

Her plays have been presented at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, off- and off-off-Broadway
and at theatres across the United States, in London and throughout the world.
Other works include As It Is in Heaven, Letters to Sala, Running and Vacuum.
Her play for young audiences, Happy Worst Day Ever, commissioned by Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park,
was winner of the 2010 Macy's New Play Prize.
A six-time finalist for the Heidemann Award and a three-time winner of the
Samuel French-Off-Off-Broadway Short Play Festival,
Hutton is an alumna of New Dramatists and a member of
The Dramatists Guild and Ensemble Studio Theatre.

Rushen Players has previously presented two of Hutton’s plays:

Last Train to Nibroc in 2019

Last Train to Nibroc in 2017

I Dream Before I take the Stand in 2016

The Play:

Arlene has an enviable reputation for tackling difficult topical social issues, head on.
In particular she is passionate about women's rights and Blood of the Lamb is, if nothing, a serious issue.
The social and political climate in the United States post the Wade v Rowe legal challenges inspired her
to write Blood of the Lamb.
The play is as powerful as her I Dream Before I Take the Stand and her new play at the 2025 Edinburg Fringe,
Shake, Rag, Hollow was inspired by the French Gisèle Pelicot scandal.

Blood of the Lamb is a drama focussed on two female characters enclosed in a windowless
industrial room late at night, in Houston, TX ... or is it Dallas?

Nessa: A young professional female travelling from Cailfornia to New York.
Val: A career lawyer allocated to a client by the State, probably because everyone else
is asleep or declined the opportunity.

“BLOOD OF THE LAMB” is presented through special arrangement with and all
authorised performance materials are supplied by TRW PLAYS www.trwplays.co.uk

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