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:

20 February 2003

Dad's a quadriplegic now, since going head first through a windscreen. His current vegetable existence in a wheelchair contrasts horribly with his earlier life as a talented impersonator of the Vegas-era Elvis Presley.

Mam, a 38 year-old English teacher, grabs herself a 26 year-old bit of rough to compensate her sexually, but she readily admits it isn't the same. 14 year-old daughter Jill throws herself into cooking and getting fat, partly to comfort herself that she's doing something useful for Dad, and partly to kick against Mam whom she accuses of disloyalty (and anorexia).

It is clearly Dad, or more precisely his Elvis alter ego, who is the puppet master for the entire piece. When Jill (Natalie Blades reprising the same fat girl routine from Gordon Steel's A Pair of Beauties, but with a talent deserving a far bigger stretch) decides she wants to grab a bit of Mam's rough (Christopher Connel), she first has to dress him up in one of Dad's Elvis suits. ...

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