Stiff
T01685796025
Suspenders, death and embalming. What is it about the business of death that we find so funny? This is not the first comedy to be set in a funeral parlour, but it must be one of the most entertaining. In fact, the label 'comedy' does not begin to do it justice. STiFF is an outrageously suggestive, old-fashioned farce. Think of 'Carry On' films and saucy seaside postcards and you will be on the right track. Angel Delight is the illegitimate daughter of a funeral director, and inherits the undertaker's premises when he dies. But there's a catch in his will. Before she can sell the business and the land (which is much more valuable), she is required to keep the funeral parlour open for a further five years. She knows absolutely nothing about the funeral business... but rather a lot about prostitution. So Angel and her team of 'girls' (including an obsessive-compulsive transvestite named Delilah) decide to use the undertaker's premises as a front for a massage parlour. But they have to keep their personal services hidden from the prying eyes of a disgruntled former employee who feels he should have inherited the funeral business. Add suspenders, death by misadventure and some unorthodox embalming techniques and you have all the ingredients for a riotous evening.
Archive :: production:T01685796025, play:S699816478, venue:V326
