GIRL power returns to Holmfirth next week and for one of the ladies it promises to be a particularly hectic few days.
Christine Millington will be centre stage at the Civic Hall from Thursday as one of three women starring with Turn Again Theatre in Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads 2.
For three nights Christine will be performing The Outside Dog, one of Bennett’s much-loved monologues, played on BBC TV by Julie Walters.
She’ll be sharing the stage for three nights, from Thursday to Saturday, with Loretta Catlow and Meg Plummer.
But on the Friday and Saturday nights, as soon as she has dusted off Bennett’s words, Christine will hotfoot it to the Picturedrome to join her band, Milking The Lemon, which will be playing in the Holmfirth Festival of Folk.
The line-up includes Christine’s husband Mike, another Turn Again regular Steve Baker, plus Al Heeley (bass) and Mick Palfrey (drums).
For Bennett fans the Turn Again programme features Loretta in The Hand of God, performed by Eileen Atkins on TV and Meg in the piece that Patricia Routledge played, A Lady Of Letters.
Both actresses were in the company’s production of Fawlty Towers last October with Loretta (as Sybil Fawlty) and Meg (as Alice Richards).
News too of a busy time for director Daren Wild, who appeared six years ago alongside Christine in the Holmfirth-based group’s original production of Talking Heads.
This week he is playing the Artful Dodger in Oliver at Oldham.
Tickets for the Turn Again show are (£6 and £4) from Holmfirth Information Office (phone 01484 222444).
