Eddie Izzard is a Brit stand-up comedian, actor, and activist and something of a slightly manic multi-tasker. When she is performing her stand up routine it is always at wonderful frentic pace that she mumbles her hilarious stories that have the most obscure connections that have her audiences screaming She has put this and also her political campaign on a temporary hold to become a Member Of the UK Parliament, to bring her one-woman show to Off-Broadway.
Izzard is genderfluid and calls herself “somewhat boy-ish and somewhat girl-ish“. She uses the word “transgender’ to describe herself and because she is public about this has become something of a queer idol.
Now she has bought her solo show of Charles Dickins classic Creat Expectations to off-Broadway. It’s a classic tale of convicts, mystery, friendship, rivalry, unrequited love, revenge, and redemption and in it, Izzard plays a total of 19 characters from scary Miss Haversham to young Pip. The script is written by her brother Mark Izzard and directed by Selina Cadell, and it opened on Thursday at the Greenwich House Theater to some initial excellent reviews
Director Selina Cadell‘s production does not rely on high-tech set and lighting design, quick costume changes and other visual effects. This is theater as storytelling in its most elemental sense, with Izzard herself as the biggest special effect.
Plus `Its only a Six Week run, so DO NOT HESITATE, as Queerguru, we know it’s going to be one of the hottest tickets of the Season Performing Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations December 22 – January 23. Tickets at: eddieizzardgreatexpectations.com
