FOLLOWING last year’s sell-out success at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Manchester-based writer and actor, Stephanie Ridings, is bringing her one woman show Me, Mum and Dusty Springfield to Kendal’s Brewery Arts Centre on Saturday, April 17.

The show is a black comedy examining the bond between mother and daughter, sprinkled with Dusty lyrics and coated with a song or two.

Stephanie has toured nationally as a performer and spent six months as artist-in-residence at Manchester’s Contact Theatre.

Me, Mum and Dusty Springfield premièred at The Royal Exchange in Manchester and was redeveloped before spending a month at Edinburgh.

Stephanie said she first got the idea for the show after hearing a Dusty track and was lucky to be given inside knowledge about her life from a fan who had met the 1960s pop music legend.

“They came to see the show and really helped me develop the personal side of Dusty, recognising what made her the icon that she still is today.”

* Me, Mum and Dusty Springfield is at Kendal’s Brewery Arts Centre on Saturday, April 17.