The new UK stage tour of Mum's the Word is at Perth Theatre from Tuesday 27 April.
ITV's Popstar to Operastar finalist and star of resurgent singing sensations The Nolan Sisters, Bernie Nolan, has regrettably withdrawn from the UK stage tour for health reasons.
Tracy Shaw - probably best known for playing Maxine Peacock in Coronation St. and Sally Ann Matthews (Coronation Street, Waterloo Road & Emmerdale are continuing in the spring tour of the acclaimed comedy musical, to be directed by actor-turned-Director, Andrew Lynford (Simon Raymond - EastEnders)
Perth Theatre is the first Scottish stop on the 23-date tour of the show which has already proved to be a smash-hit on two continents. Mum's the Word comprises five women, five stories and one common thread; a hilarious and intimate look at motherhood. Having performed over 5,000 shows around the world, played eight record-breaking UK tours and a West End run, this award-winning, sell-out stage phenomenon is on the road again; liberating, enlightening and educating, but mainly just washing the secret, funny, dirty laundry of motherhood in public.
Written by six Canadian actresses who were each once glamorous, exciting professionals and find themselves exhausted, bedraggled amateur mothers with ten children under the age of six between them. Mum's the Word is a cathartic account of their experiences as they recount the trials and tribulations of motherhood.
"I find it much easier to be a good mum in public"
Press exclaim the show ‘should have been sponsored by the NHS', as this perceptive and painfully funny play deals with the shocking realities of child-bearing through to child-rearing and the daily drudgery of food, spit, snot, vomit, urine, faeces and bathwater, with which every parent can identify.
"Some mornings when I am desperate for more sleep, I lie to my husband about how many times I got up in the night with the baby"
Mum's the Word is touring UK theatres through spring 2010 and will be performing at the Perth Theatre from Tuesday, 27 April, to Saturday, 1 May. To book tickets, contact Horsecross Arts Box Office on 01738 621031 or click here.