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   Good Life stars in great shows at The LowryTheatre and TV favourites Penelope Keith and Felicity Kendal, known for starring in the classic TV series The Good Life, are to tread the boards at The Lowry in the forthcoming months. Penelope Keith makes her debut at The Lowry in the sharp-edged comedy Entertaining Angels (Mon 28 September – Sat 3 October) prior to the West End. Felicity Kendal stars in Mrs Warren’s Profession (Mon 2- Sat 7 November) one of George Bernard Shaw’s most witty and provocative plays. Penelope Keith was made for the role of Grace, a clergy wife, who has spent a lifetime on her best behaviour in Entertaining Angels. Now, following the death of her husband Bardolph, she is enjoying the new-found freedom to do and say exactly as she pleases. But the return of her eccentric missionary sister Ruth, along with some disturbing revelations, forces Grace to confront the truth of her marriage. Felicity Kendal faces the ultimate test of a mother-daughter relationship as she takes the title role in Mrs Warren’s Profession. Her daughter, Vivie, has never really known much about her mother. A prim young woman, she has enjoyed a comfortable upbringing, a Cambridge education, a generous monthly allowance and now has ambitions to go into Law. Is it conceivable that all this privilege and respectability has been financed from the proceeds of the oldest profession? How will Vivie react when she finds out the awful truth about her mother’s ill-gotten gains? Written in 1894 but banned from performance until the racy 1920s, Mrs Warren’s Profession lays bare the rampant hypocrisy of Victorian society and its constrained morals.
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