Sue Ingleton to star in a hilarious play about old age. 20824
By Tania Martin
COMIC genius Sue Ingleton will keep hills audiences in stiches of laughter next month with her tales of old age and memory lapses.
She is taking her play The First Step on a Tram is Hell on the road with the first stop at the Burrinja Gallery in Upwey.
Foothills residents will also get the chance to see this hilarious skit when Ingleton takes centre stage at the Knox Community Arts Centre.
Written and performed by Ingleton, this hilarious play look at life after 60. Straight from a sell-out season at the 2007 Melbourne International Comedy Festival, this play show no holds-barred revelations of aging and aged care.
Ingleton’s alter egos, Bill Rawlings and Edith Wise, will keep audiences in stiches with tales of speed dating for seniors, the pros and cons of prepaid funerals and the perils of sidewalks.
Ingleton said the play was her salute to the resilience of old age.
“My life and my theatre are inextricably entwined and so the show will, like my life, be chaotic, loose, disturbing, funny, truthful, full of exaggeration and mostly unpredictable,” she said.
Ingleton’s first stop will be at the Burrinja Gallery, 351 Glenfern Road, Upwey, on Saturday 2 August at 8pm. To make a booking call 9754 8723.
The curtain will also be raised on this fabulous comedy at the Knox Community Art Centre, on the corner of Mountain Highway and Scoresby Road, on Thursday 12 August from 1.30pm.
To make a booking call 9729 7287.
