Des Dillon`s dark comedy Blue Hen is a gritty moving drama about two men who are out of work and out of patience in the roughest scheme in Coatbridge. But they've one thing going for them - the power of their own imaginations.

Paddy and John are two ordinary working class guys who are out of work and out of luck when they hit on a scheme to keep them occupied and keep their bellies full.

They're going to rear chickens in their back green and sell the eggs for profit. But it's not easy being the only honest men in Coatbridge's roughest scheme and their venture doesn't exactly go to plan. As their dreams of self-sufficiency crumble, a powerful story of friendship against the odds unfolds.

John is played by Charles Lawson

(Paddy reverses through the close holding one end of swing park fence. John has the other end)
JOHN: Carry it right Paddy

PADDY: I am carrying it right.

JOHN: I`ve got all the weight.

PADDY: Have ye f**k.

JOHN: Right right put it down for f**ksakes, fuckin hand`s killing iz - look at that!

PADDY: Poof

JOHN: I had all the weight.

PADDY: Did ye f**k. Here d`you think it`s alright to be taking this?

JOHN: How d`you mean?

PADDY: Swing park fence man. What if they run onto the motorway, one of the wanes?

JOHN: Wanes, you mad? There`s no wanes nowadays Paddy. F**k sake man, they`re drinking at six, injecting at seven, stabbing at eight and pregnant at ten. There`s no wanes any more. Wanes is dead.

PADDY: But some of them must at least go up there drinking n that on the swings like.

JOHN: What swings?

PADDY: (realising) Where is the swings.

JOHN: There`s not been a swing chute or roundabout up there since you were ten.

PADDY: That`s not right that. That`s my f**kin childhood by the way. I`ve memories invested there John. (Paddy is thoughtful a beat)
How did they let this happen?