Eddie Izzard on gender, acting, and Dickens solo
Taken from our theatre podcast, Eddie Izzard speaks with the Evening Standard’s Chief Theatre Critic Nick Curtis about her one-woman adaptation of Dickens’s Great Expectations, her gender fluidity, and her personal drive to succeed. In this episode:
- Izzard explains her names & pronouns
- How Izzard’s one-woman Great Expectations show was born
- Why it was launched in New York
- How Izzard’s adapted from comedy into acting
- The rave reviews from the New York show
- Izzard’s one-woman Hamlet show
- Why the ‘vast majority’ of people are vying for a ‘live and let live world’
- How being gender fluid supports Izzard’s male and female roles
You can listen to more of this interview from the Evening Standard Theatre Podcast here.
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