![]() ![]() If you are in a car you don’t want to lean sideways to turn a corner. It is just like knowing how to both ride a bicycle and drive a car. I think I have learned more how to just ‘be’ on film now. “My early work as an actor wasn’t very good because I just switched all my comedy muscles off, and I didn’t know what to replace them with. Watching the film, you’re so ready to see Izzard slip into one of his wayward meanders of consciousness that for a while it seems odd that he stays on script. Judi has this amazing spark of vitality that traces all the way back to her youth.” She felt like a young woman, a young teenage girl almost. One time, Izzard recalls: “I was dancing with Judi to Ray Charles’s ‘What’d I Say’. The film was shot partly at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight (the first time any film crew had been allowed inside by English Heritage) and the cast would let their hair down in the evenings. Seeing her channel Victoria at close quarters was a daily masterclass. She has been a regular at his stage shows and has been in the habit, for reasons forgotten, of sending a banana to his dressing room each opening night, with “Good luck!” written on it. ![]() Izzard has done plenty of films before – he was in Ocean’s Twelve and Thirteen alongside George Clooney and Brad Pitt and the rest – but nothing that has required quite this level of costume drama restraint. In Stephen Frears’s interpretation of the true story of Queen Victoria’s late-life friendship with an Indian servant, Victoria & Abdul, Izzard plays a full-bearded, tweed-suited Bertie (later Edward VII), reining in his comic instincts to inhabit the outrage and scheming of a son seeing his mother apparently making a fool of herself. The “anything” he has been doing most recently is to take on the challenge of acting opposite Judi Dench and Michael Gambon. “You think, if I can do something that hard, but positive – maybe I can do anything.” After that afternoon, he says, he not only felt he could face down the things that scared him, he went chasing after them: street performing, standup comedy, marathon running, political activism, improvising his stage show in different languages – all these things felt relatively easy after that original coming out as what he calls “transvestite or transgender”. ![]() The experience taught him some things: that there was power in confronting fear rather than avoiding it and that from then on he would never let other people define him. She has previously acted on stage in A Day in the Death of Joe Egg on Broadway, earning a Tony Award nomination for her performance.īook Eddie Izzard Great Expectations tickets and enjoy a commanding performance of this tale of mystery, rivalries, unrequited love and redemption.He spun around to give an answer, but before he got many words out the girls had run in the opposite direction. No stranger to the stage, she is well-known for her whimsical, self-referential comic style that has propelled her career through sold-out tours and a spot as one of the UK’s most loved comedians. Izzard assumes the role of every character in a commanding performance that was first seen in New York. Great Expectations at the Garrick Theatre is the Victorian tale we are all familiar with, populated by larger-than-life characters including orphan Pip, escaped convict Magwitch, beautiful but distant Estella, and the iconic jilted bride, Miss Havisham. Performing all the roles herself, this one-woman show is a unique opportunity to catch Izzard’s acting skills live. Eddie Izzard’s Dickensian one-woman playBeloved, boundary-pushing comedian and actor Eddie Izzard brings a new staging of Charles Dickens’ classic novel, Great Expectations to the West End this year. ![]()
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