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Dateline: 28th March, 2002 Borderline to Tour Perfect Days Fresh from their successful tour of Women on the Verge of HRT Borderline Theatre are back with a tour of Liz Lochhead's re-worked romantic comedy Perfect Days. The brand new production with a fine line in Glasgow patter and a lot of heart will premiere at Cumbernauld Theatre on Friday 5th and Saturday 6th April and will tour to 12 venues throughout Scotland, including a two week run at the Citizen's Theatre, Glasgow. Celebrity hairdresser Barbs Marshall might seem to have it all: a successful business, her own TV show, a fabulous loft apartment in Glasgow's Merchant city, designer clothes, lots of good friends of both sexes, and an ever-loving mother with a housework fixation. But as Barbs hits thirty-nine, and with the Big Four-O looming, all of a sudden there's the deafening tick of her biological clock. Barbs wants a baby and it has to be now or never. Yet as she tries to go about the business of getting what she really, really wants, she's not the first to find that life is what happens while you're making other plans. With Elaine Collins, star of the Oscar-winning Frank Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life as Barbs and Una McLean as her mother, Sadie, Perfect Days is a truly touching and hilarious story that will have you wondering at what might be the make up of the modern happy family. Liz Lochhead is one of Scotland's best-known writers. She has just been awarded Scotland's most prestigious book prize, The Saltire Society's Book of the Year Award, for the publication of her re-interpretation of Medea, published by Nick Hern Books. She has written several successful plays including her translation of Tartuffe into rhyming Scots, Shanghaied (a commission for Borderline Theatre), Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off and The Guid Sisters. In March 2002 her latest work Miseryguts, a Scots adaptation of Moliere's Le Misanthrope opens at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh. Perfect Days has been a huge hit with audiences and promises a perfect night at the theatre because of its strong appeal to both sexes. It was a nominee for Best New Play award at the 2000 Olivier awards. This success reaffirms Borderline's track record of consistently working with writers, actors and directors of the highest quality. In the company's 28 years history it has produced work by such playwrights as John Byrne, Alex Norton, Marie Jones, Neil Simon, Bernard Farrell, Dario Fo, A.L. Kennedy and Rona Munro to name just a few and has established an unsurpassed reputation for producing high quality accessible entertaining theatre. The company's commitment to making drama as accessible as possible and to producing high quality accessible theatre was endorsed by the Scottish Arts Council last year when Borderline was named as one of only seven Scottish theatre companies to receive fixed term funding to continue their work. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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