CUT & DRY was a six part ‘docu-soap’ which follows the antics of staff & management at BELLISSIMO Hair & Beauty Salon in Galway. I did some work on a couple of episodes, helping out my buddy Dathai who was editing it
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The series followed Bellissimo salons in Galway and Limerick over a busy six months of expansion and change culminating in the salon competing in the prestigious ATHENS CUP COMPETITION in Greece.
Going beneath the shampoo lather and hair dryer to document a salon’s working life at different levels, the six half hour programmes comb through relationships and the inevitable frictions, strains and tensions that emerge in any heated business and creative atmosphere.
John Murphy 