TFTR ON THE VERGE OF ANOTHER PREMIERE IN 2024
Following their smash hit production of Calendar Girls and the regional premiere productions of Shout!, Disenchanted!, Soho Cinders and Tommy; in 2024 Third From The Right Productions bring to Halesowen Town Hall, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, the dark comic musical that puts the ‘mad’ in Madrid.
With music and lyrics by David Yazbek (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Full Monty). Book by Jeffrey Lane (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels) and based on Pedro Almodóvar's 1988 Oscar-nominated film of the same name, this madcap musical will delight both fans of the film and newcomers to this raucous tale.
Women On The Verge is a story about women and the men who pursue them... finding them, losing them, needing them, and rejecting them. At the centre is Pepa whose friends and lovers are blazing a trail through 1980s Madrid. Along with Pepa, there's her missing (possibly philandering) lover, Ivan; his ex-wife of questionable sanity, Lucia; their son Carlos; Pepa's friend, Candela, and her terrorist boyfriend; a power-suited lawyer, and a taxi driver who dispenses tissues, mints and advice in equal proportion. Mayhem and comic madness abound, balanced by the empathy and heart that are trademarks of Almodóvar's work.
Press comments from the 2015 West End production:
"A joyous evening: an affectionate, poignant and defiant tribute to female resilience"
Financial Times
"An absolute joy of an evening, built on heartbreak, jealousy and tongue-in-cheek verve"
Daily Telegraph
"Funny and tender. This show sends you out of the theatre feeling repaired"
The Times
"Gloriously camp yet seriously heartfelt celebration of female powers of survival"
The Independent
Suitable for ages 12+
Thursday 21st to Saturday 23rd November 2024 at 7.30pm
Tickets £18.00
