Australian comedy legend Fiona O'Loughlin will bring her new show to Cessnock Performing Arts Centre on March 29, in her only Hunter show for 2022.
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With an award-winning career of over 20 years, O'Loughlin says the new show - Fiona O'Loughlin Live! - is the most fun she's ever had.
"It feels like this is the lightest show I've done in years. It's about my sixties, grandmotherhood - it's looking back on my life but also looking forward. But it's all new material," she said.
"My show will be every bit as 'she didn't say that, did she?' (something audiences have come to expect), but not for shock value - it's just that I'm loving life.
"I love being sixty. I've never felt better, I've never felt better looking. It's crazy. I'm like I'm going to have a hot year to decade!"
O'Loughlin said she wants to speak on behalf of "us more mature women".
"We're the new elders, and we don't look like we're supposed to. It's a slap down to post-modernism," she said.
"The beauty of it is that the older I'm getting I am finding it so much fun. It's really just me. It is my true self on stage with this show."
In Fiona O'Loughlin Live, the master storyteller says she has "found another gear".
"It was something I've always dreamt of. I used to watch Billy Connolly tapes and I said if I can only get to the point where you transpose the complete part of yourself to the stage - great!
"It works. This audience, I love them, because when we all laugh, we get it on. It's a real communal feeling."
The show starts at 8pm. Tickets are on sale at the CPAC Box Office, by phone on 4993 4266 or online at cessnockperformingartscentre.com.au.