It was announced today (30th March 2008) that brand new show Grumpy Old Women Live 2: Chin Up Britain will see SUSIE BLAKE (Coronation Street, The Victoria Wood Show) and WENDI PETERS (Coronation Street, Bad Girls) star alongside original Grump JENNY ECLAIR, who is also co-writing with JUDITH HOLDER. Tickets are now available for seven dates in June 2009.

Since the Grumpies were last on the road things have gone to rack and ruin … so chin up Britain! It’s time to fight back, with ninety minutes of advance grumping: better value than a Marks and Spencer’s meal deal and more fun than jumping up and down on a trampoline without a bra. Grumpy Old Women Live 2: Chin up Britain includes a belly full of new grumps and handy hints on getting through these hard times the grumpy way, including: grumping through the ages, menu masochism and other female syndromes, why the recession is good for our kids, celebrity culling, plus The Grumpy Guide to Safe Grumpy Rumpy Pumpy!

The original stage version of Grumpy Old Women Live completed four sell-out UK tours, a hugely successful month-long West End residency, and a hit run in Australia - which, combined, sold 180,000 tickets. The original show was also written by Perrier Award-winning comedian JENNY ECLAIR and JUDITH HOLDER (best-selling author of the first Grumpy Old Women book and producer of the hit TV series).

WHAT THE PRESS SAID ABOUT GRUMPY OLD WOMEN LIVE:

“The writing is stiletto sharp. Great gales of laughter greet every admission and shared middle-aged secret.”
Robert Gore Langton, Daily Mail

“The audience, largely made up of robust middle-aged women, roared. I’ve sat with this crowd before. The same ageing girls’ night-outers attended The Vagina Monologues at the Bristol Hippodrome three years ago. But Eve Ensler’s play, for all its flashes of humour, remains so achingly, lower-sixthishly intense. With its lighter touch, Grumpy Old Women Live is a wiser and more knowing expression of female solidarity.”
Amanda Mitchison, Sunday Telegraph

“A slickly scripted evening of comedy … The largely female crowd greet gags about Trinny and Susannah and catalogue shopping with bashless glee.”
Dominic Maxwell, The Times

“Warmhearted, witty, empathetic and, dare I say it, rather empowering.”
Kathryn Flett, The Observer


For more information please contact Ben Nolan or Dan Lloyd at Avalon Public Relations on: 020 7598 7222 / benn@avalonuk.com or danl@avalonuk.com