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Trailer/trash

The Hen and Chickens Theatre, Inner London
From: Thursday, 25th October 2012
To: Saturday, 10 November 2012

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Synopsis

Frankie & Dottie don't have relationships - just each other. The way they live, love and trust just doesn't look the same as it does in the movies they've been watching since they were kids. But somehow the magic of the movies is every bit as real. The miracle is - every day they get up they believe that today could be their day...

Our Review:

26 October 2012

Hope springs eternal for two friends, waitress Frankie and stripper Dottie, who live out their mundane existence in a trailer park somewhere in the arse end of America. This new play by Mike Elliston is performed by Famous & Divine (aka dynamic duo Amanda Price and Mary Steadman) - a company they set up in 2007 to explore the experience of womanhood in modern society.

Dottie (Steadman) has supposedly been promised a contract to headline a Las Vegas show while Frankie (Price) aspires to be the man in a tux she once saw in a film. As such the pair get swept away, American Dream-style, in a whirlwind of expectation and free-flowing alcohol at the prospect of a new life just around the corner.

Honing their Deep South accents to a tee, Steadman and Price work wonders together as they effortlessly combine the funny with the tragic in their shrewd and feminist depiction of white trash. Although men are mentioned they are never seen and audiences might find their sexuality to be ...

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