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Scunthorpe Telegraph Thursday, April 25 - Wednesday, May 1, 2013

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Scunthorpe Telegraph

Thursday, April 25 - Wednesday, May 1, 2013

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WHATS ON MEETS TOYAH WILCOX

TOP 10 THINGS TO DO
A FASHION show will take place at the Angel Suite in Brigg in aid of the Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance tomorrow (Friday, April 26) at 7.30pm. Tickets are 7.50 from Petticoats in Brigg. Call 01652654284. GLANFORD Park will be the location for the North Lincolnshire Fun Run. All proceeds from the event on Sunday (April 28) will go to childrens charity When You Wish Upon A Star. The entry fee is 4 (adult) and 3 (child under 12) and registration before the day is preferable. Call 01472 827100. MUSIC duo Chas and Dave are performing at the Plowright Theatre in Scunthorpe on Tuesday (April 30). Tickets are 24. Call 0844 8542776 to book.

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Whats On meets Eddie Izzard

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THE Scunthorpe Art Group Society Exhibition at North Lincolnshire Museum in Scunthorpe is running until Sunday, April 28. Call 01724 843533 for more details. ON SUNDAY (April 28) an open day will take place at 51 Fleetgate from 1pm to 4pm. The property is an old domestic dwelling. Call 01469 519144 for more information.

From punks wild-child to a Hormonal Housewife ...

An evening of non-stop giggles will see a group of women share their innermost thoughts and desires on stage when Hormonal Housewives goes back on tour. Entertainment reporter SELINA MAYCOCK spoke to singer and actress Toyah Wilcox to see what experiences she will be bringing to life in this showcase of the modern woman
learning the lines was, Toyah said, a breeze. I didnt have a problem with learning the script, she said. Ive done them before. I read them and make sure I know it before rehearsals. Its about listening to whats happening on stage. If you listen to the others, you remember the script. I have adapted and made my own lines in the script. Its a great script in the first place, but I talk about never having children, my wild ways of dealing with PMT and other personal experiences. I was hormonal from being a seven-year-old until I was 51. I found it horrendous, because I never had anyone to help me with it, but I think in the modern age people have cures for most things. And she said she is enjoying every minute. It was like a big rollercoaster the whole time, she said. Im playing me, but for some of the scenes Im not in character. Im enjoying all the scenes. Some are quite demanding and intricate. Without giving too much away, we play mothers at the school gates. Theres a scene where we are elderly with no teeth and I share how I felt when I had PMT. I hope to give the audience a new comfort with that experience. Julie is a very natural comic. She has very quick one-liners. I dont know what I am I need an audience to observe, so Im waiting to find my feet a bit more. She said there was an interesting chemistry between the cast members. She said: The three of us are different. Im the smallest of the three, which makes an interesting dynamic, without being too radical. Theres a lot of music in the show and although we dont sing we do encourage the audience to sing along. I hope the audience embraces the show and I hope it makes them laugh. As a real life wife, Toyah enjoys married life and has a few of her own female role models to look up to. She said: I have a wonderful relationship with my husband. Hes my best friend and the most affectionate person Ive ever met. My female role models are people like Helen Mirren and Dame Judi Dench I worship them a great deal, theyre great role models. Toyah is touring for the rest of the summer before getting her teeth into a film. To buy tickets (priced at 20), call 0844 8542776.

CINEMA

Listings shown for Vue Cinema, Scunthorpe, Friday, April 26-Thursday, May 2

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FOLK band Faustus are playing at the Ropery Hall in Barton on Saturday (April 27). Doors open at 8pm and tickets are 12 or 14 on the door. Call 01652 660380. SHOW: Hospital Players in Up and Running THE Hospital Players are perfor ming the comedy Up and Running at the Plowright Theatre in Scunthorpe every day until Saturday (April 27). Performances start at 7.30pm. Visit www.scunthorpe theatres.co.uk for more details. A WEDDING fair will take place at Heslam Park, Scunthorpe, hosted by venue decoration company Be-Dazzled and take place on Wednesday, May 1 from 5.30pm to 8.30pm.

THE Scunthorpe Male Voice Choir will perform a concert at St Barnabas Church, Barnetby on Saturday (April 27). Doors open at 7pm. Call 01652 659127 for more details and tickets.

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EUROPEAN Arts will present Four Farces at Ropery Hall in Barton tomorrow (April 26). Doors open at 8pm and tickets are 10 or 12 on door. Call 01652 660380.

TEPPING inside the mind of a woman is a scary thought for some men. But if you want to imagine what it is like for us girls, this show will give you an idea. Three friends will confess all in an evening at the Baths Hall, Scunthorpe, on Thursday, May 2. Hormonal Housewives features sketches looking at everything that makes todays woman tick (or ticked off), from the joys of teenagers, and the challenge of IKEA, to the madness of holiday reps and the insanity of DIY. On stage for the shenanigans is Toyah Wilcox, writer Julie Coombe and Hollyoaks actress Sarah Buckley. In a career spanning 30 years, Toyah has had 13 top 40 singles, recorded 20 albums, written two books, appeared in more than 40 stage plays, made ten feature films and presented television programmes as diverse as The Good Sex Guide Late and Songs Of Praise. Toyah admits she saw the Hormonal Housewives script and thought it was fantastic. I love comedy as an art form, she said. Ive only ever done three comedies before and this is something really fantastic. We dont leave the stage its two hours of dialogue. Were just having the greatest time. The show is for all the women out there whose man is more James May than Christian Grey. Hormonal Housewives is written by husband and wife team Julie Coombe and John McIsaac. Since graduating in 1992, Julie has enjoyed a varied career in theatre, radio and television in productions ranging from Shakespeare to pantomime. Julie has also been a regular at Scotlands number one comedy venue, The Stand Comedy Club in Edinburgh, for the past 10 years. She and her husband, John, run a monthly new comedy writing night there called Melting Pot, which offers a platform to aspiring authors. This show is very much about women, said Toyah. Its not feminist. Its about women who talk about their lives and shared experiences. We want to be hilarious, naive and generate pleasure and weve added in a number of new scenes to this musical drama. Without giving too much away, the set is very colourful and has wobbly bits. Toyah says she shares her own personal experiences in the show. Julie and her husband have written 99 per cent of the script, showing both sides of the coin, said Toyah. Its obviously about women but we dont exclude men. Its just like women going to see a male comic they would expect to get a baiting at some point. Were on that stage worshipping men and women, not hating them. The show will be hard work but

THE MAN BEHIND THE MASK: Robert Downey Jr as Iron Man

Iron Man 3 (12A)

ROBERT Downey Jr returns as the billionaire-inventorsuperhero Tony Stark, aka Iron Man, but we now find him to be a nervy insomniac prone to panic attacks. He does at least have his former assistant-turned-CEO Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow) on hand to soothe him. Its not long, though, before their domestic bliss is thwarted by a two-pronged attack the arrival of biologically advanced super-powered humans and the mysterious figurehead of a terror group who is known as The Mandarin (Ben Kingsley.) When Starks Malibu mansion is reduced to rubble, along with all his

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gadgets and gizmos, he embarks on a harrowing quest to find those responsible. But left with nothing more than a ruined Iron Man suit, hes forced to survive by his own devices, relying on his ingenuity and instincts when he crash-lands in a small town in Tennessee. At every turn his mettle is tested, not least by Aldrich Killian (Guy Pearce), who Stark met years earlier. With the aid of his own research through a brain-trust organisation known as AIM, hes now transformed himself into a smooth but dangerous operator. As Stark fights his way back home, and to save a kidnapped Potts, he finds the answer to the question thats secretly haunted him: does the suit make the man or the man make the suit?

1980S POP ICON: Toyah Wilcox

Iron Man 3 in 3D (12a), Sat/Sun 12.30pm, daily 1.10, 3.20, 4.20, 6.20, 7.30, 9.10, Fri/Sat/Wed 10.20pm Iron Man 3 (12a), Sat/Sun 11am, daily 2.10, 5.20, 8.30 GI Joe: Retaliation (12a), Sat/Sun 10.40am, Fri/Sat/Wed 10.30pm The Croods (U), Sat/Sun 11.20am, daily 1.50, 4.10 Olympus Has Fallen (15), Sat/Sun 11.30am, daily 2.20 (subtitled Sun), 5.10, 8.00 (subtitled Tues), Fri/Sat 10.40pm Evil Dead (18), Sat/Sun 10.40am, daily 1.10, 3.30, 5.50, 8.15, Fri/Sat/Wed 10.30pm Scary Movie 5 (15), daily 6.30, 8.45, Fri/Sat/Wed 10.50pm Oblivion (12a), Sat/Sun 11.00am, daily 1.50, 4.50, 7.45 Wreck it Ralph 3D (PG), Sat/Sun 10.00am KIDS AM: Hotel Transylvania (U), Sat/Sun 10.30 Senior Screen: Hitchcock (12a), Tues 1.00pm

HORMONAL HOUSEWIVES
The Baths Hall, Scunthorpe, May 2
HITCHCOCK: Sir Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchock