Cooking with Elvis

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Cooking with Elvis is a darkly comic stage play by British playwright Lee Hall that blends family drama with rock ’n’ roll nostalgia and absurd humor.

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Cooking with Elvis canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf stage play
author Lee Hall
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
creator Lee Hall
exploresTheme family dysfunction
frustration
grief
sexual awakening
unfulfilled dreams
firstProducedAt Live Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne
firstProductionCompany Live Theatre Company
firstProductionLocation Newcastle upon Tyne
genre absurdist theatre
black comedy
comedy
drama
family drama
hasCharacter Elvis impersonator father
mother
mother's lover
teenage daughter
hasHumorType dark humor
farce
hasSubject caregiving
paralysis
working-class life in England
hasWestEndProduction Yes
includesElement Elvis Presley songs
cooking sequences
rock and roll music
isPartOf British contemporary theatre
narrativeForm two-act play
notableActorInProduction Charlie Hardwick
Frank Skinner
originalLanguage English
setting North East England
family home
style mix of realism and absurdism
subject Elvis Presley fandom
disability
family relationships
rock and roll
sexuality
timePeriodOfSetting late 20th century
tone darkly comic
satirical
WestEndTheatre Whitehall Theatre

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Lee Hall notableWork Cooking with Elvis
Lee Hall wrote Cooking with Elvis