Preview: Gwyneth Goes Skiing at Newcastle Live Theatre

Awkward Productions’ viral sensation Gwyneth Goes Skiing heads to Live Theatre

Gwyneth Goes Skiing

Newcastle Live Theatre

Wednesday 13 - Saturday 16 November 2024 

Gwyneth Goes Skiing
Photo: Jonny Ruff

Awkward Productions are taking their viral sensation Gwyneth Goes Skiing on a UK & Ireland tour this autumn, visiting Newcastle in Autumn. Gwyneth Goes Skiing will return to the slopes after two sold-out and critically acclaimed runs in London, as well as a sold-out run across the globe in Park City, Utah, where the real trial happened. There, the show was enjoyed by both Gwyneth and Terry’s legal teams, as well as witnesses and jurors from the trial itself – with one describing the show as “99.9% accurate” and another as “more entertaining than the actual trial”. This ever-evolving show from the harbingers of queer chaos is a story of justice, betrayal and optometry, recounting the biggest case to rock the legal world since law was invented. The show makes the audience the jury, asking them to decide who's guilty and who's gooped.

Joseph Martin and Linus Karp
Photo: Jonny Ruff

Gwyneth Goes Skiing stars Linus Karp as the Goop-founding, Door-Sliding, Shakespeare-In-Loving, consciously-uncoupling Hollywood superstar Gwyneth Paltrow, and Joseph Martin as her nemesis, Terry Sanderson, a retired Optometrist from Utah. The show follows Awkward Productions’ multiple award-winning, Edinburgh Fringe sell-out hit Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story.

In an exciting development for Gwyneth Goes Skiing, Emmy and Golden Globe winner and Broadway legend Darren Criss will provide the singing voice of Terry Sanderson. Criss is best known for playing the role of Blaine Anderson in Glee (alongside the real Gwyneth Paltrow!), as well as his lead role in The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story. Criss has also starred on Broadway in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

Joseph Martin
Photo: Jonny Ruff

Alongside Criss, Edinburgh Comedy Award Winning comedian, actress and singer Cat Cohen will lend her voice as Gwyneth Paltrow on the vocal track with absolute bops including I Wish You Well and See You In Court.

Cat Cohen’s live comedy performances combine stand-up with cabaret-style songs. The comedian, actress, and singer’s first Netflix comedy special, The Twist...? She's Gorgeous, was released in 2022. As an actress, she has appeared on comedy series such as High Maintenance, Broad City, Search Party, and What We Do in the Shadows.

Linus Karp
Photo: Jonny Ruff

Drag legend, television personality, make-up mogul and singer-songwriter Trixie Mattel makes a special on-screen appearance as Gwyneth Paltrow’s mother, Blythe Danner. In 2015, the world fell in love with Trixie on the seventh season of RuPaul's Drag Race, and in 2018, she went on to win RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars.

Gwyneth Goes Skiing recounts the collision in 2016 on the slopes of Deer Valley and the court case seven years later that enthralled the world. Gwyneth Goes Skiing features a whole lot of fiction, a sprinkling of verbatim lines from court transcripts and delightfully catchy original music by Leland (RuPaul’s Drag Race; Cher’s Christmas; Troye Sivan’s Something To Give Each Other).

Audiences are advised that Gwyneth Goes Skiing is BYOJE (bring your own jade eggs).

On The Web:

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Cast

Gwyneth Paltrow Linus Karp (he/him)

Terry Sanderson Joseph Martin (he/they)

Singing Voice of Gwyneth Paltrow Cat Cohen (she/her)

Singing Voice of Terry Sanderson Darren Criss (he/him)

Blythe Danner Trixie Mattel (she/her)

Deer of Deer Valley Leland (he/him)

Voice of Deer Valley Resort, Mrs Rabbit Sam Carlyle (she/her)

Mr Squirrel Wez Maddocks (he/him)

Judge Dan Hildebrand (he/him)

Creatives:

Writers, Directors, Lyrics Linus Karp (he/him) and Joseph Martin (he/they)

Producer Nic Connaughton (he/him)

Original Music and Lyrics Leland (he/him)

SM, Lighting Design James Appleby (he/him)

Assistant Stage Manager Ciara Pidgeon (she/her)

Music Production Gabe Lopez (he/him)

Sound Design Roly Botha (they/them)

Choreographer Sam Carlyle (she/her)

Associate Director Lauren Lambert Moore (she/her)

Sound Recordist Wez Maddocks (he/him)

Hair And Wig Styling Styled By Vodka

Graphic Design Alice Gorman (she/her) 

Tickets:

Gwyneth Goes Skiing runs from 13th - 16th November at Live Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne. Tickets are available online from https://www.live.org.uk/whats-on/gwyneth-goes-skiing  

Running Time 120 minutes (including a 20minute interval)

Notes Ages 16+, this show contains strong language, adult humour and exploding vagina candles