Artform solo comedy theatre
Scale small - mid scale
Availability Spring 09
Laurielorry Theatre Company and makin projects present
Sausage & Samosa - brand new production for 2009! and now available to tour alongside the companies touring favourites Gusset & The Diaries of Marjorie Simpson
Sausage & Samosa
Eve, an environmentalist and dry-stone wall expert, is fast becoming a wilting wallflower. Tired of dating agencies and as a last ditch attempt to find her man Eve taps into the Asian culture of arranged marriages.
Ready Steady cook meets Blind Date and true in ‘Bollywood style’ Eve’s fantasy begins as the potential suitors now downloaded from Eve’s website www.hottottierecycleme.com are shown.
The audience cast their vote by raising a sausage or a samosa card to choose Eve’s perfect Adam...
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Sausage & Samosa
Eve, an environmentalist and dry-
The audience cast their vote by raising a sausage or a samosa card to choose Eve’s perfect Adam...
‘Gently poignant yet always witty, unlike Alan Bennett's Talking Heads, the pathos never once threatens to strip away the humour, and one wishes there were more of the delicious humour of reported dialogues with other characters. Knicker elastic for the soul with a feelgood factor that rides high.’ – The Stage (on Gusset)
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Gusset
Pauline Potter’s gusset is her guiding light and her epicentre. She has worked in the factory for twenty years as a ‘Floater’ and that by definition means she floats from one job to another. Pauline feels trapped and is desperate to get out, she is learning to be a writer at night school and with her new book ‘Gusset Path to Life’ anything is possible.
The gusset determines the way a woman moves and feels. If it is cut the wrong way dramatic changes take place. If you are experiencing, mood swings, manic depression, irrational behaviour and want to kill the nearest man to you… check your gusset out!
I did and it changed my life.
‘Her matter of fact delivery and extreme physical postures make the grinding indignities of the production line into the stuff of comedy.’ – Leicester Mercury
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The Diaries of Marjorie Simpson
Not the blue-haired cartoon character, but the author-performer’s mother-in-law, who kept a diary during the last years of her life as she resisted the encroachments of cancer.
It is New Years Eve and everyone is invited to Marjorie’s party… she’s blowing up balloons… getting ready.
Meet Marvin, Miles, Mervin, Mathew, Miriam, Mr Welsh, ‘Don’t come any nearer Vera’, and Tibbles the cat.
Marjorie’s relationships, love and fears are revealed through a moving yet hilarious story that is overflowing with a cocktail of emotion, shaken and stirred with a twist in the cat’s tale.
Pauline Potter’s gusset is her guiding light and her epicentre. She has worked in the factory for twenty years as a ‘Floater’ and that by definition means she floats from one job to another. Pauline feels trapped and is desperate to get out, she is learning to be a writer at night school and with her new book ‘Gusset Path to Life’ anything is possible.
The gusset determines the way a woman moves and feels. If it is cut the wrong way dramatic changes take place. If you are experiencing, mood swings, manic depression, irrational behaviour and want to kill the nearest man to you… check your gusset out!
I did and it changed my life.
‘Her matter of fact delivery and extreme physical postures make the grinding indignities of the production line into the stuff of comedy.’ – Leicester Mercury
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It is New Years Eve and everyone is invited to Marjorie’s party… she’s blowing up balloons… getting ready.
Meet Marvin, Miles, Mervin, Mathew, Miriam, Mr Welsh, ‘Don’t come any nearer Vera’, and Tibbles the cat.
Marjorie’s relationships, love and fears are revealed through a moving yet hilarious story that is overflowing with a cocktail of emotion, shaken and stirred with a twist in the cat’s tale.
‘The writing is full of witty prose and observations’ - BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour
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Laurielorry Theatre Company
Laurielorry theatre company takes 'everydayness' and transforms it into a profound and extraordinary performed situation. The aim of Laurielorry is to explore the comedic possibilities in performance to expose humour and pathos that not only enlightens and entertains but communicates directly with audiences.
In 1999, at the age of forty, Elaine Pantling graduated from De Montfort University with a BA Single Honours in Performing Arts.
She spent the previous twenty years working as a 'Time Served Cutter' in the hosiery trade. On leaving university Elaine formed 'Laurielorry Theatre Company'.
She has devised, written and performed seven professional shows and has built up a following in the East Midlands Region. Elaine has worked with adults who have learning difficulties and she has written and directed two films - "My Genes Don't Fit" (Supported by The Wellcome Trust) and "I Love You More Than Cheese" (Sponsored by Lloyds TSB).
She was the Co writer and director of a short film working with Film maker Harvey Sharman-Dunn. 'The Nook (Grumpy Young Men!)' Supported by North West Leicestershire CC, Positive Futures, The Arts Council England East Midlands and Leicestershire CC.
For more information please visit www.laurielorry.co.uk
Laurielorry theatre company takes 'everydayness' and transforms it into a profound and extraordinary performed situation. The aim of Laurielorry is to explore the comedic possibilities in performance to expose humour and pathos that not only enlightens and entertains but communicates directly with audiences.
In 1999, at the age of forty, Elaine Pantling graduated from De Montfort University with a BA Single Honours in Performing Arts.
She spent the previous twenty years working as a 'Time Served Cutter' in the hosiery trade. On leaving university Elaine formed 'Laurielorry Theatre Company'.
She has devised, written and performed seven professional shows and has built up a following in the East Midlands Region. Elaine has worked with adults who have learning difficulties and she has written and directed two films -
She was the Co writer and director of a short film working with Film maker Harvey Sharman-
For more information please visit
