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Cooking with Elvis
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"Run don't walk to the latest Theatre Zone production "Cooking With Elvis." This Theatre Zone production is hilarious, touching, and extremely well-acted. Last night's opening night crowd laughed and hooted raucously throughout the show and kept applauding long after the curtain call...Stephen Libby's Elvis numbers are worth the price of admission alone but all the performances are top-notch...This production is definitely one to put at the top of your list."
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When an amateur Elvis impersonator is paralyzed in a car crash, his wife and daughter are forced to cope with the aftermath. Jill tries to replace him with cooking, Mam tries to replace him with sex. Unfortunately, they both try out their talents on the same man.
Father's hallucinatory Elvis dreams, Mam's insatiable randiness, and daughter Jill's culinary and sexual awakening reach a crescendo when the arrival of Stuart, a handsome young baker, throws their insular household into sexual and culinary turmoil.
Lee Hall's outrageously dark farce debuted at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival where it was highly acclaimed, then moved to the Whitehall Theatre in London in 2000. Hall is best known for the screenplay to the film Billy Elliot, for which he received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay. His other plays include Spoonface Steinberg and adaptations of The Servant with Two Masters and the Dutch play The Good Hope. In 1999/2000 he was appointed Writer in Residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Performances of Cooking with Elvis by Lee Hall are Fridays at 8:00, Saturdays at 7:00 and 9:30, October 15-November 6 2004, at the Chelsea Theatre Works, 189 Winnisimmet St., Chelsea.
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Cast: Jill-Anna Waldron Mam-Danielle L. Didio Stuart-Michael McKeogh Dad-Stephen Libby
Director- Danielle Fauteux Jacques |
