Tony & Twizzle, The Glory Years
LipService Theatre in association with The Lowry
Present a World première of Tony & Twizzle, The Glory Years
- a riotous look at the cult of celebrity -
Mon 8 – Sat 13 September 2008
Press night Tues 9 September
By Maggie Fox & Sue Ryding
Director Mark Chatterton
Designer Michael Holt
Award-winning comedy duo Lipservice Theatre perform the world première of their new show at The Lowry, inviting audiences to spend an evening in the company of Tony & Twizzle who provide a ‘warts and all’ look back at their fabulous showbiz careers.
Dubbed the northern French ‘n’ Saunders and described by The Independent as Britain’s favourite literary lunatics, Lipservice will deliver a hilarious look at the cult of celebrity.
Anthony Chalmers and Isobel ‘Twizzle’ Trilling – stars of Celebrity Wheelie Bins and What’s Down your Passage? - spill the beans on their fascinating lives. Tony talks candidly about their remarkable comeback after winning Celebrity Wheelie Bins, how Twiz drove him to drink, his time in rehab and the road to spiritual enlightenment. Twiz was famously sacked by Sir Loin Andrew Webber after her voice cracked during the Royal Variety performance, made and then lost a fortune when the bottom fell out of her underwear business and famously invented facial gymnastics.
Tony & Twizzle re-enact scenes from their famous films, stage appearances, and TV triumphs, notably Whistle Down your Blouse, Wednesday Night and Thursday Morning and cult ‘80’s shoulder padded soap set in the deep south of USA, Mine a Million. Tony & Twizzle will have you flashing back through their ‘70s and ‘80’s TV and film careers quicker than you can say, ‘give us a twirl’…they’ve done it all, even a number one love song!
These two are no strangers to the tabloid press but will they talk frankly about what really happened to priceless three times Crufts champion Winona, the cocker spaniel bitch?
Over the past 20 years LipService has established itself as one of the leading comedy touring companies producing shows for the theatre which have a strong base in popular culture.
“Pant wettingly funny” The Guardian (on Very Little Women)
“Prepared to be shaken and stirred with comic invention” The Stage (on Jane Bond)
“It’s all quite bonkers of course, but hugely enjoyable” Manchester Evening News (on Jane Bond)
Posted on Wednesday, 06 August 2008 under Press Theatre Press