“So every dream that I’ve dreamed has come true a hundred times…” Elvis

Joan is an amateur female, Aberdonian Elvis impersonator with big dreams. And she’s got the outfit.
With the regional heat of Ultimate Elvis coming up, Joan knows there’s work to do. But Joan has The King inside – and The King always wins. Will Joan find her way to Graceland, to love and to riches? Aye, Elvis is an alternative love story about escapism, identity and a Doric Elvis.

‘Aye Elvis’ started life at A Play, A Pie and A Pint at Oran Mor in Glasgow and was immediately picked up by Gilded Balloon for a run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in the Rose Theatre. It then returned to Oran Mor, by popular demand as part of the audiences ‘top ten’ picks, for a second run. It was subsequently staged in a specially built outdoor theatre space on the roof of a multi story car park at the foot of Edinburgh Castle when the Edinburgh Fringe Festival returned for the first time after ‘Lockdown’. This version was produced by the Traverse Theatre with Gilded Balloon and MultiStory.

Cast: Joyce Falconer, David McGowan, Karen Ramsay (Oran Mor & Rose Theatre), Carol Ann Crawford (Traverse Multi Story)

Director: Ken Alexander

Designer: Gemma Patchett

Production Photographers: Leslie Black, Lesley Adam

“There are definite shades of Martin Scorsese’s King Of Comedy here…directed with verve by Ken Alexander” Lorna Irvine, TheTempoHouse

“It’s this back-story of a cash-strapped, drab existence that brings Morna Young’s engagingly daft comedy to the edge of a genuinely affecting abyss of bleak disappointment. If Young’s writing is adept at changing gears between the highs and lows of Joan’s single-minded discovery of her ‘inner Elvis’ then director Ken Alexander and a tremendous cast are totally onside in shading the broad sweeps of humour with sadly telling little character details.” Mary Brennan, The Herald

 ‘I doubt if there’s another actress in Scotland who could play the The King-loving quine role of Joan in Morna Young’s hoot of an hour-long show Aye, Elvis with so much heart and hilarity than the indomitable Joyce Falconer…boldly directed by Ken Alexander… the Hard Headed Woman finally gets her wish-ish: to ‘feel properly, like, alive’ ”. Reviewsphere