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About Elaine...

Elaine C Smith is one of Scotlands best known and best loved actresses and comedy entertainers. Her starring roles in television comedy series like City Lights, Naked Video and the award winning Rab C.Nesbitt have earned her a place in the heart of the Scottish public.

Elaine is much sought after stand up, after her sold out tours and performances of "Elaine with Attitude" and "Hormonally Driven" ( both the basis for highly succesful TV series for BBC Scotland) and is a very experienced after dinner Speaker, appearing for numerous charities and corporate events.

Elaine was also the first woman to headline the No 1 Pantomime in Scotland at the Kings Theatre, Glasgow and has performed in the role of Dame for the last 7 years.

Her Drama roles include lead characters in the acclaimed drama series 2000 Acres of Sky with Michelle Collins and Paul Kaye and this year in 55 Degrees North, both for BBC 1.

She also worked with award winning director Annie Griffin on two projects for Channel 4"Wrath" and "Coming Soon" with Julia Davis and Ben Miller.

Her theatre work is extensive starring in everything from Guys and Dolls and Shirley Valentine to new plays at the Glasgow Tron or the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh.

Apart from writing much of her comedy material she has also written a best selling book about her life "Elaine’s world" and writes a weekly page for the best selling Sunday newspaper in Scotland, the Sunday Mail.

Elaine and her husband Bob Morton, run a small production company RPM Arts in Glasgow, which produces all of Elaine’s work. They have been together for 25 years and have 2 daughters, a dog, a cat and a goldfish.



NEWS and SHOWS

THE RISE AND FALL OF LITTLE VOICE by Jim Cartwright

The winner of the 1992 Evening Standard Best Comedy Award and 3 of the 1993 Olivier Awards, including Best Comedy.


with

ELAINE C SMITH and ANDY GRAY

"playful, magical and terrifying... Sunday Times

"A backstreet Cinderella story, with a built-in kick" Guardian

" a cracker, original, hilarious and hauntingly sad" (Daily Telegraph

Elaine C Smith and Andy Gray return to Scotland’s No 1 stages with a brand new production of the award-winning hit play The Rise and Fall of Little Voice. Often described as The Great Northern Comedy, it is a masterpiece of comedy song and gripping drama gaining worldwide recognition as the Hollywood blockbuster featuring Michael Caine, Brenda Blethyn, and Jane Horrocks

Jim Cartwright’s highly acclaimed urban fairy tale tells the story of a young girl imprisoned in her squalid home grieving for her dead father. She finds solace in her bedroom listening to her father’s classic record collection of divas. Over time she develops a unique talent to mimic the great voices of Bassey Billy Holiday Piaf, it is a talent that could have the world at her feet.

Her widowed mother, the foul mouthed, hilarious lush, Mari Hoff (Elaine C Smith) craves enjoyment through a haze of fags, booze and men. In her hangovers she shares the details of her cheap sexual encounters with her fat and smelly friend Sadie May. Above all she desires to be rescued by her most recent lover, the sleazy “entertainment” agent Ray Say (Andy Gray). However, Say has only eyes for the talent of Little Voice. He is determined Little Voice will be his salvation to the big time, He needs to convince Mr Boo the equally desperate and cheap club owner that terrified Little Voice can be convinced to perform in public. Little Voice discovers her chance to escape the squalor and abuse in the shape of the tender and shy young electrician Billy.

Autumn 2006 Scottish Tour

FROM THE WRITER OF “LITTLE VOICE”

THE MUST SEE COMEDY OF THE SEASON

ELAINE C SMITH and ANDY GRAY In

TWO By Jim Cartwright

“A Brilliantly, surrealistically and comically poetic piece” SUNDAY TIMES

Join Elaine C Smith and Andy Gray, two of Scotland’s finest comedy actors in a brilliant portrayal of two married but warring pub landlords in Jim Cartwright’s award winning TWO. The action takes place in a Scottish pub inhabited by a multitude of strange and eccentric customers; all of who share more than a passing resemblance to Smith and Gray.

An evening in the pub takes the audience through a gamut of emotions from misery to side splitting laughter as we meet up with a host of unusual customers all with a story to tell, until a little boy looking for his dad forces the bickering couple to unveil their heartbreaking secret. This is a hilarious and moving play guaranteed to touch a nerve in anyone who sees it.

Don’t miss this great night out as Smith and Gray come together on stage for the first time since their smash hit The Woman Who Cooked Her Husband which preceded Gray’s fabulous performance in the recent highly successful Scottish tour of the West End hit Stones in His Pockets.

TOUR DATES Autumn 2006

  • 7th Sept- 23rd Sept PERTH THEATRE

  • 25th Sept -30th Sept KING’S THEATRE, EDINBURGH

  • 3rd Oct - 7th Oct REP THEATRE, DUNDEE

  • 9th Ovt - 14th Oct KING’S THEATRE, GLASGOW

  • 18th Oct - 21st Oct ADAM SMITH THEATRE, KIRKALDY

  • 24thOct - 28th Oct GAIETY, AYR

  • 2nd Nov - 4th Nov MACROBERT STIRLING

  • 7th Nov – 10th Nov HIS MAJESTY"S THEATRE ABERDEEN