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 last year with GIRLS WHO WEAR GLASSES, a mix of the comic, the dark and the delightfully saucy. This year, by popular demand, she revives her 'Marlene' with a new and quirky double-act: DIETRICH AND HARTSHORNE But who's wearing the trousers? Launching later this year, Patricia has been working on a memoir about her origins and adventures as a performer, in which she describes how an ex-convent schoolgirl came to be strutting around an intimate off-West End theatre as Marlene Dietrich, flaunting her French knickers and suspenders - on a Good Friday! |