Withering Looks

LipService – Britain’s favourite literary lunatics, present their cult Brontë spoof. The classic comic duo, Maggie Fox and Sue Ryding, just couldn’t resist the urge to dust off their crinolines, wear flattering bonnets and sit at rain-lashed windows in a pale and decorative manner. Don’t miss this chance to share in the silliness too!

Withering Looks takes an “authentic” look at the lives and works of the Brontë sisters – well, two of them actually, Anne’s just popped out for a cup of sugar. Peopled with many of the characters we know and love, Maggie and Sue move effortlessly from frock to frock coat.

Withering Looks has won a Manchester Evening News Theatre Award and the Critics Award for Comedy at the Edinburgh Festival.

Running time: 1 hr 40 mins including one interval.

Cancel all other engagements for the glorious LipService

— The Independent

It’s a joy… very, very funny

— The Guardian

This award-winning show remains one of the most popular plays in the repertoire of a company whose comedy theatre style has seldom been bettered

— The Guardian

“The Laurel and Hardy of literary deconstruction”
The Independent