
Hot Flushes
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· Fringe Theatre, Contemporary, Musicals
Part of Calm Down Dear, a three-week festival of innovative feminist performance.
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Overview
It’s 2016. Lady Green is on her £100m Super Yacht, Sir Phil Green is taking questions from the Select Committee, and Annie, who has worked thirty years for BHS, is reeling from the loss of her pension. Croydon branch is closing but there’s no closure for Annie, not even in the stoic lyrics of her favourite Country songs. That’s until a chance encounter in the ladies’ fitting rooms with Patsy, a member of the National Rifle Association. It seems Annie has a lot to learn from the women of the Round Rock chapter of the Well-Armed Woman…
Hot Flushes is a Country and Western musical which tackles the pension crisis 1950’s born women head on. It’s a show about later life activism. With a rousing score that’s catchier than Ebola, quick-fire one-liners and two hard-to-forget homicidal, menopausal heroines, Hot Flushes is probably the only show you’ll see this year that puts hutzpah and foot spa in the same lyric.
Performed by three actor/musicians, the script is a selected play for Bristol old Vic Open Session 2019 and is produced by award-winning company Documental theatre, who are excited to return to CPT with their first formal musical!
Age Recommendation 14+