Touched...Like a Virgin
From: Tuesday, 22nd May 2012
To: Saturday, 9 June 2012
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Synopsis
In 1984 Lesley, an ordinary lass from Manchester is ?Touched for the very first time' by Madonna. Thus begins a lifelong love affair until the world's biggest pop star gets married and ditches the pointy bra in favour of twinsets and pearls. Lesley feels betrayed and the clock is ticking. What if, when you are ready to settle down, you find you've left it too late? Zoe Lewis takes a gut wrenching look at the thirty-something dilemma. Expect pop classics, IVF and tears in this riotously funny and wry look at modern womanhood. Touched...Like a Virgin completes Lesley's journey from a 14 year old virgin in Touched For The Very First Time (Trafalgar Studios 2009) to Like A Virgin - a brand new play featuring Lesley as a 38 year old stuck in the modern crisis, single, no kids, clock ticking. Zoe Lewis has blended the old and the new material together, in a new musical transformation, with pianist and cabaret singer
Our Review:
25 May 2012
Strong female performers often provide the role models for young women struggling to find their way. These days it's Lady Gaga; in the 1980s it was Madonna, the icon for the 'have it all' generation of women brought up by feminist mothers who wanted their daughters to be free – to have a career, sexual relationships and, most of all, to be happy.
For Lesley, that's an ideal she always seems to fall short of. As she grows up, Madonna becomes the blueprint for her own life, mirroring the singer's personal reinventions, as Lesley goes from council house child wanting no more than a semi-detached, a husband and a bunch of kids, via Oxford University, New York's Met Bar and to a fertility clinic in Sweden. As it turns out, where Lesley ends up is not really that far from where she always wanted to be.
Sadie Frost's Lesley is smart, likeable and funny, with a keen sense of what she's doing and where she's going wrong. Frost demonstrates f...
Cast
Creative
Zoe Lewis (Author)
Sally Humphreys Productions Ltd (Producer)
James Phillips (Director)
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