Withering Tour

A new tour and an alert:
1. LipService Theatre is touring again with their Withering Looks spoof:

This spring we are touring our cult classic, Withering Looks, a slice of life with the Brontë sisters - well two of them, Anne's just popped out for a cup of sugar!
To book a show please ring 0161 232 6093

26th April  Derby Live Guildhall Theatre
27th – 28th April Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds
29th April  Junction, Goole
13th – 14th May  Oldham Coliseum
20th – 21st May Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough,# On sale from 28th February
27th May Worcester Live, Swan Theatre
4th June The Brontë Society
9th June Rose Theatre, Ormskirk
16th June Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham
17th June Canterbury Gulbenkian Theatre
29th June The Mill, Banbury
30th June Lancaster Grand
EDIT: 11 July Lichfield Festival

The York Press interviews Maggie Fox and Sue Ryding (LipService):

Withering Looks was the show that really put LipService on the map. “Who would have thought there’d be comedy in the Brontës with all their coughing and tuberculosis?!” ponders Maggie. “But we weren’t lampooning the Brontës, more the gift-shop culture that now surrounds them.
“I do remember one iconic night when the whisper went round that the Brontë Society, the great bastions, the keeper of the Brontë flame, were in the audience, and I thought, ‘Oh my god, they’re going to close us down’, but it turned out the curator went to school with me in Tadcaster.
“They loved the show so much that our programme went into the Brontë exhibition at the Parsonage.” (Charles Hutchinson)

2. In Bertrix, Belgium:

Souffles de femmes 
Soirée littéraire consacrée à Dominique Jacques (Emily B.)
Il y a peu, elle nous entraînait dans l’univers particulier d’Emily Brontë. Elle y explorait les Hauts de Hurlevents, mêlant son souffle de femme au vent de la lande, en quête d’identités plurielles. Tour à tour Emily, Catherine Earnshaw, Heathclif, elle avait su trouver les mots justes pour restituer l'intimité et le côté passionnel de cette histoire.
Mais le goût des mots, elle le cultive depuis très longtemps, au travers de son métier (professeur de français à l’INDA d'Arlon) et de sa double passion, l’écriture (« Le Fantôme de Vancouver », « Stat Amor » publiés aux éditions Memory Press) et le théâtre.

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