SEXY LAUNDRY Will Make UK Premiere

Checking into a trendy spa hotel, Alice and Henry are on a mission; to jump start their 25-year marriage. Time has taken its toll - so have kids, stress and gravity. Hoping to rekindle their flagging sex life, Alice and Henry stumble through their fantasies, finding that flaming the fires of passion is not as simple as making a hotel reservation. Can they embrace all the wild suggestions from their marriage-saving quick start guide? What develops is a laugh-out-loud romantic comedy as the couple discover themselves and their marriage all over again.

Sexy Laundry by Michele Riml, a poignant and hilarious look at the up and downs of love, marriage and the bedroom, has been a smash hit in the US, Canada, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Slovenia, Germany, Mexico, and Iceland, and in Poland it continues to run in rep with over 300 performances.

Sexy Laundry will get its UK premiere at the Tabard Theatre, Chiswick from Wednesday 31 October - Sunday 25 November, directed by Phoebe Barran, who also directed Tryst at the Tabard Theatre last year.

Press night is Tuesday 6 November at 7.30pm.

Cast: Felicity Duncan (Rosie in Mamma Mia! International tour, Anyone Can Whistle and Lear, Union Theatre) and Nick Raggett (his many TV series include Pie in the Sky, The Sins, Missing, The Fear).

Produced by Sightline Entertainment and EmpireTheatrical Productions Ltd.

Michele Riml - playwright

Michele is an award-winning playwright from Vancouver, British Columbia. Sexy Laundry has been produced extensively across Canada and had its American premiere at The Hayworth Theatre in Los Angeles in 2008. Michele is also the author of RAGE, winner of the 2005 Sydney Risk prize for Outstanding Original Play, as well as the Jessie Richardson award for Outstanding Theatre Production. Theatre La Catapulte recently translated RAGE into French for production at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.Other plays include Miss Teen, Under The Influence and the critically acclaimed comedy Poster Boys, which had its world premiere at The Arts Club Theatre in Vancouver in 2008. That same year Michele was nominated for the Siminovich Prize in Theatre, Canada's largest theatre prize.

Phoebe Barran - director

Phoebe trained at the Orange Tree Theatre and on the National Theatre Studio's directors course. Directing credits include; Tryst (Tabard Theatre, UK tour autumn 2019) An Evening with Noel Fielding (UK and International tour), Four Days In Hong Kong, Suppressed Desires and Scenes from a Separation (Orange Tree), The Duke in Darkness (Tabard Theatre), The Fitzrovia Radio Hour (BBC Radio Theatre, Edinburgh Festival, Ambassadors Theatre, and National Tour), The Tin Horizon (Theatre503) and Ours (Finborough).