(HOLMDEL, NJ) -- Bell Theater at Bell Works presents Sexy Laundry by Michele Riml from April 10-26, 2026. 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. Georgette Reilly Timoney plays Alice and Bill Timoney plays Henry.
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 they embrace all the wild suggestions Alice keeps pulling from her handy-dandy marriage-saving manual? Does Alice have the courage to unearth her inner vixen? Is Henry prepared 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 flips from comedic to serious and back again. Henry and Alice’s touching and hilarious rediscovery of themselves and their inspiring efforts to restore their marriage will resonate with audiences of all ages. By turns poignant and laugh-out-loud funny, Sexy Laundry is a romantic comedy guaranteed to strike a deep and resounding chord.
Performances take place Friday 4/10 at 7:00pm; Saturday 4/11 at 2:00pm & 7:00pm; Sunday 4/12 at 3:00pm; Wednesday 4/15 2:00pm; Thursday 4/16 at 7:00pm; Friday 4/17 at 7:00pm; Saturday 4/18 at 2:00pm & 7:00pm; Sunday 4/19 at 3:00pm; Wednesday 4/22 2:00pm; Thursday 4/23 2:00pm; Friday 4/24 at 7:00pm; Saturday 4/25 at 2:00pm & 7:00pm; and Sunday 4/26 at 3:00pm.
Tickets are available for purchase online. Bell Theater at Bell Works is located at 101 Crawfords Corner Road in Holmdel, New Jersey.
Michele Riml is a critically acclaimed playwright from Vancouver, British Columbia. Her first play, Souvenirs, won The BC Young Playwrights Search. Some of her other works include Under the Influence, Poster Boys, RAGE (winner of the 2005 Sydney Risk Award), which has been produced in French, Polish, and German; On the Edge; and The Amaryllis, which was produced by The Search Party and premiered at The Fire Hall Theatre in Vancouver in the fall of 2020. The Cull, co-written with Michael St. John Smith, premiered at The Arts Club Theatre in 2023.
Michele’s play Sexy Laundry has become an international hit, translated into more than 17 languages, and enjoyed by audiences in Canada, the United States, and Europe. It continues to be produced worldwide, along with its sequel Henry and Alice: Into the Wild.
Michele also writes for young audiences, and her plays for YPT have been widely produced and translated. These include The Skinny Lie, The Invisible Girl, and Tree Boy, which was published by National Geographic and most recently produced in Athens, Greece. Her most recent play, She Shoots, She Scores!, an adaptation of hockey legend Cammi Granato’s book I Can Play, Too!, will premiere in 2026 with Green Thumb Theatre.
Michele is a graduate of Simon Fraser University's FPA program. In 2008, she was nominated for the Siminovitch Prize.
Bell Theater at Bell Works is located inside the iconic Bell Works complex with plenty of free parking. Additional upcoming concerts include rock, jazz, country, soul, theatrical productions and more.
