Armed with a copy of "Sex for Dummies", Alice and Henry check themselves into a trendy spa hotel with a mission - to jump start their 25-year marriage. Time has taken its toll, so have kids, stress and gravity. In desperation, Alice has decided that they either make this final, major effort to save their marriage, or they get a divorce and go their separate ways. Can Henry embrace all the wild suggestions Alice keeps pulling from her handy-dandy marriage-saving manual? Does he really want to see his fifty-plus wife, and mother of his children, dressed in black leather?

Alice and Henry share their erotic fantasies, exchange recriminations, and take turns confessing the details of their mid-life crises as the play moves from comic to serious and back again. Henry and Alice's touching and hilarious rediscovery of themselves and the strength of their marriage will resonate with audiences of all ages. In turns poignant and laugh-out-loud funny, Sexy Laundry is a romantic comedy guaranteed to strike a chord.

 October 7, 2011 - October 16, 2011: City Centre Stage  Red Deer Memorial Centre, Red Deer, AB Canada  Box Office: (403) 347-0800

March 7, 2011 - April 7, 2011: Theatre de L'Ile 1 Rue Wellington, Ville de Gatineau, QC J8X 2H3 Canada  Box Office: (819) 243-8000

April 13, 2011 - April 28, 2011: Ovations Dinner Theatre 10116-102 Avenue, Grand Prairie, AB Canada Box Office: (780) 897-9200

Sexy Laundry was first presented at the Vancouver Fringe Festival in the fall of 2002. The play was an overwhelming success. From 2003 to 2005 Sexy Laundry had three runs in Vancouver, BC at the Belfry Theatre and the Arts Club Theatre.

Since 2005, Sexy Laundry has gained incredible momentum. It has been produced extensively across Canada by notable theatres such as Prairie Theatre Exchange (Winnipeg, MB), Shadow Theatre (Edmonton, AB), Globe Theatre (Regina, SK), Arts Court (Ottawa, ON), Neptune Theatre (Halifax, NS), Theatre Aquarius (Hamilton, ON), and the Grand Theatre (London, ON).

In 2008 Sexy Laundry had its US premiere with a run at the Hayworth Theatre (Los Angeles, CA) starring Frances Fisher as Alice. The play returned to the US in 2009 with a successful run at the B-Street Theatre (Sacramento, CA).

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"Riml hits all the right notes here. In addition to being hilarious, Sexy Laundry is observant, moving, risque, and even a bit of a tear jerker." - The Vancouver Sun (Vancouver, Canada)

 "While their sparring provides much hilarity, between the barbs are painful and touching moments of a couple scraping the dark corners of their marriage." - LA Weekly (Los Angeles, United States)

"Sexy Laundry...is gut-bustingly funny, with comic lines piled one on the other." - Edmonton Sun (Edmonton, Canada)  

"[Sexy Laundry is a]...cunning, punchy little play, directed with deft pacing and vigour." - The Gazette (Montreal, Canada)

"...splendidly funny and resonant production..." - The Ottawa Citizen (Ottawa, Canada)

"Sexy Laundry is by turns funny, touching, sad, joyful, surprising and familiar." - The Vancouver Review (Vancouver, Canada)

"Don't miss Sexy Laundry. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll probably see yourself. That's a lot from one evening of theatre." - The Hamilton Spectator (Hamilton, Canada)

"...The script is the thing of beauty here. Penned by Michele Riml, I was amazed by how both sexes were represented." - The Sudbury Star (Sudbury, Canada)

"Sexy Laundry is at times raucous, at times tender, and at times touchingly candid." - The Sarnia Observer (Sarnia, Canada)