Nelson City Council

(New Zealand)

Revisit the Golden Age of Hollywood in Flaxworks’ latest production, Drowning in Veronica Lake, a darkly comic tribute to the eponymous 1940s screen siren.

Veronica Lake was one of Hollywood’s most glamorous stars. At the peak of her brief career, she campaigned tirelessly for the US war effort, took tea with Eleanor Roosevelt, piloted her own plane from coast to coast, was famously sued by her own mother and bankrupted by the IRS before a rapid descent into obscurity, alcoholism and a premature death as an unknown 50-year-old cocktail waitress.

Alex Ellis plays the faded star trapped somewhere between Paramount and Purgatory, gracing us with a highly theatrical account of her meteoric rise to fame and equally spectacular decline – dead for 40 years but still optimistic for a comeback.

CREDITS

Phil Ormsby - writer
Simon Coleman - director
Alex Ellis - Veronica Lake

VENUE

Suter Theatre

DATE

Thurs 20 Oct 7pm, Fri 21 Oct 7pm

DURATION

70 minutes, no interval

COST

early bird $29, full $33, under 18 $20

BOOKINGS

Everyman Records 03 548 3083 or book online here

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