Cooking with Elvis

Synopsis

Cooking with Elvis is about food, fate and sex - what more could you ask - other than Elvis. When an amateur Elvis impersonator is paralysed in a car crash, his wife and his daughter are forced to cope with the aftermath. One tries to replace him with cooking; the other with sex. Unfortunately, they both try out their talents on the same man! Part knockabout farce, part cookery course, part philosophical investigation, Cooking with Elvis celebrates the three great pleasures in life: sex, food and t he King! Warning - This production contains strong adult content.

Our Review:

25 June 2010

This is the third time that Gareth Tudor Price has directed Lee Hall’s challenging comedy, Cooking with Elvis, for Hull Truck Theatre with pretty much the same cast. There might therefore have been a hint of staleness, of repeating old successes, were it not for two factors.

The previous two productions were in the old Spring Street Theatre and the 2010 version uses the new building effectively, from the Elvis memorabilia and pre-show Elvis impersonator in the foyer (Fridays only!) to the canny lighting of Graham Kirk, at times isolating the crippled father in a sort of blaze of darkness.

Secondly the freshness of newcomer Victoria Elliott’s performance spreads throughout the production. She is the link to the audience in an oddly, but cleverly, constructed play, stridently announcing the scenes and at the end (just in case we hadn’t realised this is not real) acknowledging the glibness of the happy-ever-after epilogue. Lee Hall uses monologues, Elvis songs...

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