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:

16 July 2009

Cooking with Elvis is a raucous, fast-paced dark comedy by Lee Hall, the ingenious Northern playwright, who penned the wonderful Billy Elliot.

Originally performed in Edinburgh in 1999 and 2000, before transferring to London’s West End, the play was hugely popular with audiences at the time. Now in 2009, only a few weeks before the Edinburgh Festival, the Tron Theatre Company is staging its own adaptation of this work. With the official verdict in, it is safe to say that the show is as popular as ever. Tonight’s sold out theatre was packed with ardent fans, hurling unrelenting laughter to a point that was almost disconcerting (but I’ll come back to that one later).

Essentially, the narrative is encapsulated by the troubled relationship between a teenage girl, Jill (who also happens to be obsessed with creating gastronomic delights), and her narcissistic, nymphomaniac, alcoholic of a mother, sound like fun? Well, it probably shouldn’...

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