Pouf!

by Lou Clyde

Directed by Glorene Ellis

Comedy

2025 Show Dates: Feb 7, 8, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16

Doors open 30 minutes prior to showtime. All shows take place in the Studio Theatre (black box theatre) upstairs at CAT.

Season Tickets (5 shows): Available at a discount by calling the box office at 403-967-1769

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About Pouf!

What happens when you mix hair spray, head lice, and a little dab of Elvis? Hairlarity. The year is 1958 and Betty finds herself unfulfilled as a housewife. She and her husband have been unsuccessful in starting a family and her husband will not “permit” her to get a job. With the encouragement of her sister, Betty secretly sets up an in-home salon, leveraging her prowess with hair spray and bobby pins. Betty begins to change the lives of neighborhood women by “poufing” their hair. POUF! is an “uplifting” comedy with big hair and even bigger laughs.

About the Playwright

Lou Clyde is a Buffalo, New York transplant living in Columbia, South Carolina. POUF! is her fourth full-length comedy and was recently staged at the Connelly Theatre in New York as part of the SheNYC Arts New Play Festival. Her short play, THE SENIOR DISCOUNT, was selected for the 2022 Pick of the Vine festival at Little Fish Theatre. Lou loves comedy and her humor has been influenced by the works of Erma Bombeck, David Sedaris, and Jenny Larson. Lou is a member of the Dramatists Guild as well the Bills Mafia. (She plans to get a Buffalo Bills tattoo when they win that ever-elusive Super Bowl.) More at www.louclyde.com