Washington, D.C.: have a kinky little Christmas.(Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company's 'Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis')
American Theatre, December, 2006 by Pressley, Nelson
LONELY NORTH ENGLAND PERVERTS and Elvis impersonators: Plays with those ingredients seem to get a leg up at Washington's Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. Three years after Lee Hall's lewd, unbuckled Cooking with Elvis comes the U.S. premiere of Charlotte Jones's gentler but equally eccentric Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis--directed by John Vreeke and running through Dec.
10. A dominatrix named Josie quietly pines for a lost daughter while indulging the Torvill-and-Dean fantasies of the girl's vaguely learning-disabled twin. Martha is Josie's obsessive-compulsive cleaning woman, ...
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