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KEPOW! Theatre and Veritas Theatre in association with Park Theatre present

Beneath The Blue Rinse

By Tom Glover

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Directed by Glen Walford
Designed by Felix Waters
Cast includes Marlene Sidaway (Coronation Street), Ian Redford (Coronation Street), Kevin Tomlinson (Spiral, Park90).
 
 
★★★★ LondonTheatre1
★★★★ My Theatre Mates
★★★★ Arthur's Seat
★★★★ Love London Love Culture
 
 
 

 

‘A real delight’ ★★★★ Love London Love Culture

‘With laugh-out-loud one-liners and innuendo a-plenty, this is a great night out, joyfully tearing apart stereotypes’ ★★★★ My Theatre Mates

‘Beautifully acted’ ★★★★ LondonTheatre1

'Vibrant, sexy and hilarious' ★★★★ Arthur's Seat

 

Quentin Tarantino meets Last of the Summer Wine in this wickedly funny, high octane comedy about growing old passionately and disgracefully.

When unscrupulous, over-confident salesman Simon Sudgebury comes knocking on the door of the seemingly timid Flora Parkin, hoping to scare her into buying an expensive alarm system, little does he realise what he is about to let himself in for. Feisty, charismatic 75 year old Flora and her gentle 72 year old ‘toy boy’ lover George are not what they first appear!

Produced by comedy-based theatre company KEPOW! Beneath The Blue Rinse explodes stereotypes associated with 'senior citizens' and questions how society views and treats the elderly.

KEPOW! Theatre have been producing high quality comedy theatre shows for over 20 years, with many of their shows receiving 5 star reviews at the Edinburgh Festival, before going on to tour the UK and abroad (Seven Ages, On the Edge! and Crazy Little Thing Called Love!)

Tom Glover was selected as one of three winners of the 2018 BAFTA/Rocliffe New Writing Showcase Competition. Preceding this, he has been a winner and runner up in two BBC writing competitions, with a number of projects optioned and one commissioned. An earlier version of Beneath the Blue Rinse was co-produced by KEPOW! (www.kepowtheatre.co.uk) and Living the Drama (www.livingthedrama.co.uk) in Oxford, in June 2018.


Second short play included in your ticket price: The Answer

 

Beneath The Blue Rinse will be followed by The Answer, a comic one act play (25 minutes in length) which explores how a couple in the 1970s find an answerphone  transforms their life in unintended ways. The Answer will star Kevin Tomlinson and Abigail Hood who both appeared in Spiral in Park90 last year. Remember to come back after the interval in between the two shows to watch the second piece!


‘Glover uses delectable rudeness and forthright jokes to point the spotlight to a neglected group of people and has the audience laugh with them instead of at them’ Broadway World

‘An imaginative comedy with plenty of wit’ The Upcoming

‘The humour, often close to the bone, is hilarious’ View From The Cheap Seat

'Tom Glover has sitcom running through his veins' British Theatre Guide

'Hilarious, thoughtful' ★★★★ LoveLondonLoveCulture

'Excellent theatre' ★★★★ LondonTheatre1

'Hilarious, thought-provoking and entertaining... this is not only a great piece of theatre, but also a wake up call' ★★★★★ The Ocelot