Grumpy Old Women Live 2 - Chin Up Britain: The Grumpies Fight Back

Our Review:

21 April 2010

“Keep buggering on!” as a grumpy old Prime Minister once famously coined. It’s a suitably resilient attitude and one that the scowling members of the Grumpy Brigade, currently recruiting at the West End’s sedate Novello Theatre, would certainly like everyone to take notice of - and that means you, Private!

Bossy, no nonsense and bizarrely flatulent, Susie Blake, Wendi Peters and Jenny Eclair have reached their grumpy prime and are here to sort out emotionally wet Britain. Through a homespun tapestry of lectures, sketches and carefully contrived diatribes, these three eschew the idea of the domestic goddess to embrace the curmudgeonly middle-aged woman within. Comfortable underwear and an early night are the order of the day.

But it’s not all straight-laced sense; our ‘Grumpies’ take great pleasure in the wackiness afforded with the onset of old age. And with the occasional kitchen disco thrown in for good measure, this is also a...

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June - 27 May 2010:

This was absolute shite, i looked at my partner halfway through the first half and asked could we leave, we didnt, in the hope it got better but apart from maybe 5 mins in the second half, it remained poor. Crude ( which groups of woman are not normally like) and boring, Wendi Peters, talked like a sergent major all the way through! What a waste of money and a sunny Saturday afternoon...be warned! ;0(...

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