Cooking with Elvis
A host of Scottish TV stars are bringing Billy Elliot writer Lee Hall’s dark comedy Cooking With Elvis to The Tron in Glasgow.
Deirdre Davis and Jayd Johnson of River City, Martin Docherty from Dear Green Place and Gavin Mitchell from Still Game will keep the fun fast, furious… and filthy.
Because Cooking with Elvis is blacker-than-black and pulls no punches at all, taking a man in a coma, paedophilia and cannibalism in its stride. Oh, and a chef’s special sauce you really don’t want to know about…
It’s also deftly seasoned with some of Elvis Presley’s best-known numbers.
Mitchell plays the part of an Elvis impersonator trapped in a coma, mostly silent and unmoving but for an unhealthy reaction to the vegetable counter at the local supermarket and a tendency to leap from his wheelchair for a burst of song.
Davis and Johnson play Mam and daughter Jill, frustrated in equal measure, if for different reasons, while Docherty is the hapless cake factory supervisor who gets drawn into their world of seduction and sautéing.
Cooking with Elvis is an established hit from one of the UK’s most popular playwrights. It premiered at the Live Theatre in Newcastle, moving to the Assembly Rooms during the 1999 Edinburgh Fringe and was nominated for an Olivier Award.
This production is The Tron’s first summer production for many years as part of a drive by director Andy Arnold to increase the number of Tron Theatre Company productions. In a fittingly black Elvis-related move, The Tron is also offering half-price burgers on show nights…