DOLLYWOULD Presented By Sh!t Theatre, Opens at HOME Manchester 5/3
Following their sell-out run at the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Sh!t Theatre's UK tour of DollyWould, their unique love letter to the legendary Dolly Parton, cloning, branding, immortality and death - and also the story of their trip to the first lady of country's theme park - calls in at HOME Manchester on Thu 3 - Sat 5 May 2018.
This sharp and hilarious performance takes the audience on an adventure into
the heartland of country music, Tennessee and beyond to explore real and
plastic, mortality and immortality, original and clone.
The inimitable duo who make up Sh!t Theatre, Louise Mothersole and Rebecca
Biscuit, previously visited HOME with Women's Hour (October 2016) and Letters To
Windsor House (April 2017), and were recently in Manchester performing She
Bangs the Drums at the Museum of Science and Industry. A collaboration with Contact Theatre's young company, the show marked the centenary of the
passing of the Representation of the People Act bringing into law full voting
rights for men, and partial voting rights for women.
This time, Louise and Rebecca head to Knoxville in search of Dollywood, built on
the iconic performer's childhood home. While there, they try to visit the original
Body Farm, the forensic medical facility which researches human
decomposition. One is plastic immortality, the other the inescapable reality of
death.
Enlisting the expertise of the 'Nigella of science' genetic scientist Dr Kat Arney,
Sh!t Theatre explore the enigma that is Dolly Parton and her namesake Dolly the sheep in this rollercoaster ride of a show complete with live music and sing-a-
longs.
"We f*cking love Dolly Parton," explain Louise and Rebecca of DollyWould. "We
have always made shows from a place of anger and this year especially - with
everything that is going on in the world - we wanted to make a show from a
place of love. And we both love Dolly Parton. The show is also the story of us
getting to Dollywood.
"Dolly Parton has created a plastic brand of herself, an avatar with big blonde
wigs and boobs which can be recreated and cloned. There's a famous story
where Dolly entered herself in a Dolly Parton drag competition, and lost. The
drag queens were more Dolly than she was. Yet she is completely her authentic
self.
"She does everything her own way, she has her own wit, her own mind and
writes her own songs. She is plastic yet real, ridiculous yet respected, we laugh at
and with her. She embodies an overblown version of the male fantasy, yet it is an
open secret that she is a lesbian. She's important to us as an artist, role model
and probably queer woman."
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