Permission to take up space, to wear the crop top, to jiggle when you giggle.
Babooshka, the comedy about body image is strutting on to the Playhouse stage next week from October 31 and promises plenty of laughs as the cast of fierce, flawed and funny women strip back the layers.
First time director Erin Mulholland takes her previous experience as one of the actors in a previous production of the upcoming South Canterbury Drama League comedy and five new women and gives a fresh, modern take to the play about body image and coming to terms with insecurities and life as it is.
"Babooshka is a comedy set over one afternoon in a department store dressing room when five women play one woman’s different stages in life, all in front of the audience who act as the mirror in the dressing room", Mrs Mulholland said.
"Kem Callaghan, Viv Leslie, Laura Collis, Jenz Sim and Sue Gilchrist all do a great job playing a woman called Anna, from her 20-year-old self, late 20s businesswoman, new mother in her 30s, post-divorce 40-year-old and older and wiser 50-something. It’s a fast-paced, satirical look at body image, fame and finding yourself."
Babooshka opens on Friday, October 31 with a gala night and runs through to Saturday. November 8 at the Playhouse on Church St.
Tickets can be purchased online at iticket.co.nz or in person at the Timaru Information Centre.
— Allied Media
