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 Flash! Elaine C Smith appointed by First Minister Alex Salmond to the Scottish Broadcasting Commission a new commission which will look at the state of future of broadcasting in Scotland

NEWS and SHOWS

UK Autumn Tour 2008

THE GLOBAL PHENOMENON LIVE ON STAGE

CALENDAR GIRLS

“ WE ARE GOING TO NEED CONSIDERABLY BIGGER BUNS !”

Elaine C Smith will be appearing in the first ever stage production of Calendar Girls.The show opens at Chichester Festival Theatre on Tuesday 16th September and tours throughout the UK ( see tour dates below)

A group of extraordinary women, members of a very ordinary Yorkshire WI, persuade one another to pose for a charity calendar with a difference! Puzzling their husbands, mortifying their children and riding the wrath of an outraged WI, they inadvertently spark a global phenomenon. As interest in the calendar snowballs, the ladies find themselves revealing more than they’d ever planned.

A great uplifting story ,full of hear, Calendar Girls stars LYNDA BELLINGHAM, PATRICIA HODGE, SIAN PHILLIPS, GAYNOR FAYE, BRIGIT FORSYTH, JULIA HILLS and ELAINE C SMITH. Adapted by Tim Firth from his smash hit Mirimax film of the same name, it is based an uplifting and very inspiring true story.

Friday 5 – Saturday 27 September Chichester Festival Theatre Box Office 01243 www.cft.org.uk

Tuesday 30 – Saturday 4 October King’s Theatre Box Office 0870 060 6648 http://www.theambassadors.com/kings/

Monday 6 – Saturday 11 October Alhambra Theatre BRADFORD Box Office 01274 432000 www.bradford-theatres.co.uk

Tuesday 14 – Saturday 18 October King’s Theatre EDINBURGH Box Office 0131 529 6000 www.eft.co.uk

Monday 20 – Saturday 25 October The Lowry SALFORD Box Office 0870 787 5790 www.thelowry.com

Monday 27 October – Saturday 1 November Wycombe Swan HIGH WYCOMBE Box Office 01494 512000 www.wycombeswan.co.uk

Monday 3 – Saturday 8 November Marlowe Theatre CANTERBURY Box Office 01227 787787 www.marlowetheatre.com

Monday 10 – Saturday 15 November Cambridge Arts Theatre CAMBRIDGE Box Office 01223 503333 www.cambridgeartstheatre.com

Monday 17 – Saturday 22 November Theatre Royal BATH Box Office 01225 448844 www.theatreroyal.org.uk

Monday 24 – Saturday 29 November Richmond Theatre RICHMOND Box Office 0870 060 6651 www.richmondtheatre.net

Monday 1 – Saturday 6 December Malvern Theatres MALVERN Box Office 01684 892277 www.malvern-theatres.co.uk

Monday 8 – Saturday 13 December Theatre Royal PLYMOUTH Box Office 01752 267222 www.theatreroyal.com

SPRING TOUR 2008

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.

Scottish Tour Dates
• 14th - 29th MARCH PERTH Theatre

• 31st - 5th APRIL King’s Theatre, EDINBURGH

• 7th – 12th APRIL TBC

• 14th – 26th APRIL DUNDEE Rep Theatre

• 28th APRIL - 3rd MAY His Majesty’s Theatre ABERDEEN

• 7th – 10th May Adam Smith Theatre KIRCKALDY

• 12th – 24th MAY King’s Theatre GLASGOW

• 26th – 31st MAY MacRobert Theatre STIRLING

  NEWS

  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