Patricia performs in theatres, arts centres, clubs, fringe festivals, at after-dinner functions and private parties, and has toured widely throughout the UK and to Dublin and California.
In 2003 she formed GlovesOff Productions with her late partner, Michael Elphick, with whom she co-wrote and toured five full-length one-woman shows: LATE-NIGHT CABARET, A BIT IN THE AFTERNOON, ME AND MARLENE, ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE and ABSOLUTE PANTS. Since 2012, Patricia has continued to write and perform, creating six more new shows: DOPPEL DIETRICH, DARK DEEDS, WHEN THE BAND BEGINS TO PLAY, IN THE FUEHRER'S FACE, IT'S PATRICIA, DARLING! and DRESSING UP DIETRICH, which are all in her current repertoire, along with a wide range of songs, including some in French and German. She occasionally takes on roles with other companies, and media work. Following Covid 19 cancellations and postponements in 2020, Patricia was delighted to return to Brighton, Buxton and Greater Manchester Fringe Festivals in 2021 with DRESSING UP DIETRICH, and in 2022 with GIRLS WHO WEAR GLASSES, a mix of the comic, the dark and the delightfully saucy. Last year, by popular demand, she revived her Marlene with a new and quirky double-act: DIETRICH AND HARTSHORNE. But who was wearing the trousers? This month Patricia will be launching her memoir: 'with a bit of a SWAGGER'. About her origins and adventures as a performer, she asks how an ex-convent schoolgirl came to be swaggering around an intimate off-West End theatre as Marlene Dietrich, flaunting her French knickers and suspenders - on a Good Friday? |