“Smith transports her audience from hilarity to heartache in the turn of a phrase…”
Elaine C Smith is glorious in Eilidh Loan’s dark new comedy, Cathy, transporting audiences from hilarity to heartache in the turn of a phrase. As the eponymous granny, Smith is fiercely funny, devastatingly bereft while always ensuring that authenticity lives in every moment.
Dedicated to her own Granny Cathy, Loan weaves real heart into this tale of a recently bereaved Glasgow matriarch. Cathy’s life with Tommy may have been a sectarian clash of cultures but in a city where never the twain shall meet, true love overcame Orange Order and Roman Catholic traditions allowing them to live and love together for 50 years. Now, with Tommy taken by cancer, Cathy must come to terms with her loss… and much more.
