Dolly Slatemen is the working Wo-Mans Pub Landlady and a wannabe cougar (Alias real life Essex Pub Landlady Debbie Baisden) Dolly is on a Menopause mission to bring a Menopause Party to the masses. Looking for a career change, she's started taking acting lessons and is ready to bring out her inner thespian! In this taboo-smashing show, expect character comedy, sing alongs and Dolly's arty expressions. Both women and men are welcome and why not in a flaming hot flush kind of way shouldn't they be? It's an edutainment performance, so expect to learn something on the phenomenon of the menopause that affects half the planet. Because funny enough its half female! Dolly will take you on a standup meets theatre menopause journey via her journal entries, together with Judge Mental and Doctor Meena Poors, characters she invented to express her own menopause.

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