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Perfect Days

A successful celebrity hairdresser in Glasgow, with her own TV show and a smart loft apartment in the Merchant City, Barbs Marshall has it all. Hasn’t she? Perhaps not. For Barbs is thirty-nine. Read more …

And single. And unhappy. And is becoming deafened by the ominous ticking of her biological clock . . .

Whilst Barbs is coming to terms with this new-found desire for a baby, her own mother Sadie wastes no time in helpfully pointing out the perils of single parenthood (and don’t even mention test tubes); her oldest friend Alice suddenly reveals that she’s been keeping Barbs in the dark about a Very Big Secret; and Barbs’s estranged husband Davie casually mentions that he’s acquired a new, much younger girlfriend.

Not even Barbs’s best pal, the gorgeous but camp-as-Christmas Brendan, seems able to help her deal with this onslaught of mid-life crisis. But then, out of the blue, Barbs meets Grant – attractive and thirteen years her junior - who might just be the answer to all of her problems. Aye, right. If only.


The critical consensus

It's the dialogue that counts, though, and Lochhead's lines fizz with gallus life.

****(*)Neil Cooper, Coffee-Table Notes, 02/06/2014

It remains as timely and well-observed as ever.

****(*)Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman, 09/06/2014

It's still touching when Lochhead's plotlines come together in the closing scenes, exposing secrets and renewing friendships, but it's a slow build.

***(*)(*)Mark Fisher, The Guardian, 10/06/2014

Enjoying strong performances across the cast, and updated for the internet age by Lochhead herself, this production is neatly designed by Frances Collier and directed with a tremendous sense of pace, freedom and precision by Carruthers.

Mark Brown, Scottish Stage (Sunday Herald), 25/06/2014

Where and when?

Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Pitlochry from Sunday June 1, 2014, until Thursday October 16, 2014. More info: www.pitlochry.org.uk

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