Coming soon: Silly Cow by Ben Elton

Directed by Iona Anderson

Season: 3 to 13 November 2010

Summary: Ben Elton;s second play is a very, very funny piece of writing! Silly Cow featured Dawn French in the extremely successful West End opening and was reviewed as 'crude, clever and killingly funny' (Daily Mirror) and 'a cracker of a play'.

Doris Wallace has everything a tough tabloid columnist could want: a toy boy with a regular supply of Colombian gear; a pretty PA who might come to share her libidinous preferences and the prospect of her own TV show with a job she loves.

'I'm the nasty cow who slaughters the sacred cows' is her justification for the heartless destruction of her subjects' acting reputations and careers. But, as she begins celebrating the beginning of her next career move, the tables are turned on her as she finds - to her shock and horror - that the actors she has defamed can indeed act.

Author Ben Elton is an English-born comedian, writer and director who now lives in London and Fremantle, Western Australia.

His writing credits include the Blackadder series, The Thin Blue Line and Blessed for television while his 12 published novels include This Other Eden, Dead Famous, Inconceivable (later adapted for film as Maybe Baby) and Blind Faith.

Elton's stage plays include Gasping, Popcorn and Silly Cow, all of which opened in the West End.