1 00:00:10,204 --> 00:00:13,484 Speaker 1: My Heart podcasts here, more Gold one on one point 2 00:00:13,524 --> 00:00:15,204 Speaker 1: seven podcasts. 3 00:00:14,604 --> 00:00:17,724 Speaker 2: Playlists and listen live on the free iHeart app. 4 00:00:19,084 --> 00:00:21,803 Speaker 3: And Amanda gem Nation, Well. 5 00:00:21,684 --> 00:00:25,724 Speaker 1: She's the Emmy Award winning Tony Award nominated comedy legend, actor, 6 00:00:25,804 --> 00:00:29,244 Speaker 1: political powerhouse. She's almost run more marathons and we've done 7 00:00:29,284 --> 00:00:32,164 Speaker 1: breakfast shows and she still looks fab in the heels. Were, 8 00:00:32,164 --> 00:00:35,564 Speaker 1: of course talking about the always dazzling Susie Eddie Izzard. 9 00:00:35,684 --> 00:00:39,163 Speaker 1: She's bringing her sell out one person show, The Tragedy 10 00:00:39,204 --> 00:00:42,163 Speaker 1: of Hamlet to Australia next year, but before that, she's 11 00:00:42,244 --> 00:00:44,124 Speaker 1: joining us right here, right now in the Zoom Susie 12 00:00:44,204 --> 00:00:45,924 Speaker 1: high Hi. 13 00:00:46,324 --> 00:00:48,284 Speaker 3: Yeah, so thank you for saying I'm very well down 14 00:00:48,284 --> 00:00:52,043 Speaker 3: for comedy, but drama as well, I must say, is 15 00:00:52,084 --> 00:00:54,004 Speaker 3: the thing that I have pushed by. When I was 16 00:00:54,004 --> 00:00:55,324 Speaker 3: seven this year, I just want to be an actor. 17 00:00:55,364 --> 00:00:57,964 Speaker 3: I didn't know they had a separation, and then I 18 00:00:58,004 --> 00:01:00,164 Speaker 3: realized you could concentrate on comedy and I just wasn't. 19 00:01:00,484 --> 00:01:02,724 Speaker 3: I wasn't getting the roles at school. So I developed 20 00:01:02,724 --> 00:01:04,444 Speaker 3: this comedy career that I thought, no, I'm getting a 21 00:01:04,444 --> 00:01:07,164 Speaker 3: separate agent. I have separate agents for drama and comedy, 22 00:01:07,404 --> 00:01:11,364 Speaker 3: which is unusual. I think I think you would say 23 00:01:11,364 --> 00:01:13,764 Speaker 3: if you, if you tract ages, no attracts agents like that. 24 00:01:13,804 --> 00:01:16,484 Speaker 3: But anyway, so this is the tragedy of happened about 25 00:01:16,484 --> 00:01:19,804 Speaker 3: a family tearing itself apart, a country tearing itself apart. 26 00:01:19,884 --> 00:01:22,203 Speaker 3: Some people come thinking it's comedy. It is not a comedy. 27 00:01:22,284 --> 00:01:25,404 Speaker 3: I will not laugh at that. But I was supposed 28 00:01:25,404 --> 00:01:28,444 Speaker 3: to be in Sydney very very soon to play my 29 00:01:28,524 --> 00:01:31,164 Speaker 3: remix to her during the comedy, and I've busted my knee, 30 00:01:31,884 --> 00:01:35,444 Speaker 3: and so We've had to reschedule that. So I'm afraid 31 00:01:35,524 --> 00:01:37,764 Speaker 3: it's they had had to go in there and do 32 00:01:38,324 --> 00:01:40,604 Speaker 3: work in the knee, and so then you can't fly. 33 00:01:40,884 --> 00:01:44,644 Speaker 3: Problem with DVTs deep bring from bosses, the gods, and 34 00:01:44,684 --> 00:01:46,923 Speaker 3: then so we just had to move it to May eighteenth. 35 00:01:46,924 --> 00:01:49,324 Speaker 3: To May, I'll be back at Sydney Opera House to 36 00:01:49,444 --> 00:01:52,564 Speaker 3: do my comedy to a my other day job, and 37 00:01:52,604 --> 00:01:56,044 Speaker 3: then I'll return in June to do Hamlet. So Australia 38 00:01:56,044 --> 00:02:00,804 Speaker 3: will see comedy going into drama, just like what Shakespeare did. 39 00:02:00,924 --> 00:02:03,604 Speaker 3: Just like what Shakespeare did, because he went from his 40 00:02:03,924 --> 00:02:06,964 Speaker 3: comedies to his dramas and his work and I'm just 41 00:02:06,964 --> 00:02:09,804 Speaker 3: following in his footsteps, so you'll see the apparently, if 42 00:02:09,804 --> 00:02:11,404 Speaker 3: you buy two tickets, you can see one going to 43 00:02:11,444 --> 00:02:12,484 Speaker 3: the other, and they're not the same. 44 00:02:12,603 --> 00:02:14,644 Speaker 2: Shakespeare would have been okay with the DVT because you 45 00:02:14,644 --> 00:02:15,844 Speaker 2: wore the tights all the time. 46 00:02:16,004 --> 00:02:18,884 Speaker 3: So I think they all wore types back then. And 47 00:02:18,964 --> 00:02:20,883 Speaker 3: even though there was no like Chris, so there must 48 00:02:20,923 --> 00:02:23,244 Speaker 3: have been big baggy wooly ties where you could keep 49 00:02:23,244 --> 00:02:24,244 Speaker 3: your shopping in as well. 50 00:02:24,404 --> 00:02:25,924 Speaker 1: How did you go? How are you going in your 51 00:02:25,923 --> 00:02:28,684 Speaker 1: recovery with the knee, because as a marathon runner, hearing 52 00:02:28,684 --> 00:02:30,444 Speaker 1: that you can't run for eight weeks or whatever it is, 53 00:02:30,483 --> 00:02:33,163 Speaker 1: how's your mental health around all that? 54 00:02:33,163 --> 00:02:36,164 Speaker 3: That's okay because I can just can watch Telly, you know, 55 00:02:36,204 --> 00:02:37,564 Speaker 3: the old thing of what you want to do. When 56 00:02:37,564 --> 00:02:39,284 Speaker 3: we were kids, we just wanted to watch Telly, and 57 00:02:39,284 --> 00:02:41,444 Speaker 3: then we COVID we were forced to go into that. 58 00:02:41,483 --> 00:02:43,844 Speaker 3: And I'm back into that kind of situation, but I 59 00:02:43,884 --> 00:02:45,564 Speaker 3: can you know, I do go around on the crutches, 60 00:02:45,564 --> 00:02:48,164 Speaker 3: and you and the movement twenty degrees of movement. So 61 00:02:48,163 --> 00:02:52,884 Speaker 3: I'm going to and allow the ligament to move itself 62 00:02:52,884 --> 00:02:55,364 Speaker 3: back until I get full extension and full movement in 63 00:02:55,363 --> 00:02:57,804 Speaker 3: the leg and then I'll be back and doing the 64 00:02:57,844 --> 00:03:01,164 Speaker 3: soified against myself as what happens, as what happens at Hamlet, 65 00:03:01,204 --> 00:03:02,763 Speaker 3: you can see how good my English is. 66 00:03:02,844 --> 00:03:04,764 Speaker 1: As what happened to play all the roles in him, 67 00:03:04,884 --> 00:03:07,404 Speaker 1: it's something like twenty three yep. 68 00:03:07,964 --> 00:03:10,444 Speaker 3: Yeah, well it's actually it's about six or eight main roles, 69 00:03:10,483 --> 00:03:13,364 Speaker 3: so it's not that complicated. But you know, Sarah Snooker 70 00:03:13,764 --> 00:03:16,083 Speaker 3: has been there winning awards doing her solo show. Other 71 00:03:16,124 --> 00:03:18,684 Speaker 3: people have been, Andrew Scott doing his solo show, a 72 00:03:18,684 --> 00:03:21,484 Speaker 3: lot of people doing solo shows. So so nothing particularly 73 00:03:21,524 --> 00:03:25,043 Speaker 3: special on that, but it does make people. It allows 74 00:03:25,084 --> 00:03:28,444 Speaker 3: people to concentrate on the storytelling of Shakespeare and the 75 00:03:28,483 --> 00:03:32,284 Speaker 3: words of Shakespeare as one person travels through it playing 76 00:03:32,284 --> 00:03:34,643 Speaker 3: the characters. And it's something I've maybe been training my 77 00:03:34,684 --> 00:03:36,164 Speaker 3: whole life to do this. And I was trained as 78 00:03:36,164 --> 00:03:38,324 Speaker 3: a street performer, which is much more like the training 79 00:03:38,324 --> 00:03:42,004 Speaker 3: that the actors in Shakespeare's day had, and they broke 80 00:03:42,044 --> 00:03:43,684 Speaker 3: the fourth wall all the time because they didn't have 81 00:03:43,764 --> 00:03:46,564 Speaker 3: this idea of a separation of characters on stage to 82 00:03:46,644 --> 00:03:50,124 Speaker 3: separation of the audience. They just were taught them they 83 00:03:50,124 --> 00:03:52,564 Speaker 3: were traveling players, and then they came into theaters just 84 00:03:52,604 --> 00:03:55,004 Speaker 3: before Hamlet was written. It's the very early days of 85 00:03:55,204 --> 00:03:55,884 Speaker 3: English theater. 86 00:03:56,244 --> 00:03:58,644 Speaker 2: And do you you don't play the skull though as well? 87 00:03:58,684 --> 00:04:02,564 Speaker 3: Surely yes, Well thell the skull sits in my hand 88 00:04:02,684 --> 00:04:04,844 Speaker 3: and I look at it, but the audience's imagination paints 89 00:04:04,844 --> 00:04:07,204 Speaker 3: it in just like if you're listening to a radio 90 00:04:07,284 --> 00:04:08,884 Speaker 3: play on things, and you could see all the things. 91 00:04:08,924 --> 00:04:11,764 Speaker 3: So if you read a book, your imagination sees all 92 00:04:11,803 --> 00:04:15,364 Speaker 3: the different the vistas, the mountains, you can see everything 93 00:04:15,404 --> 00:04:19,724 Speaker 3: in your imagination. We've got such great imaginations that it's 94 00:04:19,764 --> 00:04:21,524 Speaker 3: it's not a problem. And if you go to a 95 00:04:21,564 --> 00:04:24,803 Speaker 3: theater shown, any theater show will need about thirty percent 96 00:04:24,803 --> 00:04:27,684 Speaker 3: of your imagination. I'm just asking for thirty five percent. 97 00:04:28,124 --> 00:04:30,644 Speaker 3: And if you've got no imagination, don't come well. 98 00:04:30,644 --> 00:04:33,644 Speaker 1: For many of us doing Shakespeare's school, the language drives 99 00:04:33,684 --> 00:04:36,244 Speaker 1: are so hard to wade through. I can imagine how 100 00:04:36,284 --> 00:04:37,644 Speaker 1: wonderfully you'll bring it to life. 101 00:04:39,044 --> 00:04:41,964 Speaker 3: Well, this is the thing. It is Elizabethan verse. But 102 00:04:42,324 --> 00:04:45,044 Speaker 3: there are also the first quarter version, the second quarter version, 103 00:04:45,044 --> 00:04:48,084 Speaker 3: and the first folio version. There are different versions. And 104 00:04:48,684 --> 00:04:51,844 Speaker 3: we my brother older brothers did the editing. He and 105 00:04:51,924 --> 00:04:54,084 Speaker 3: he is the academic of the family and We argued 106 00:04:54,124 --> 00:04:58,844 Speaker 3: long and strong with my director, Selina Cadell, over which sections, 107 00:04:58,884 --> 00:05:00,764 Speaker 3: which pieces we would like to use, which pieces we'd 108 00:05:00,804 --> 00:05:03,444 Speaker 3: like to drop away, so that we wanted to serve 109 00:05:03,484 --> 00:05:05,363 Speaker 3: the play, make sure the play works because it's a 110 00:05:05,404 --> 00:05:08,284 Speaker 3: rewritten play. Shakespeare would always take plays that already existed 111 00:05:08,284 --> 00:05:12,324 Speaker 3: and rewrite and make them better. So that we wanted 112 00:05:12,324 --> 00:05:14,164 Speaker 3: that play to work so the kids from nine to 113 00:05:14,284 --> 00:05:16,564 Speaker 3: ninety can come in and grab it and walk away 114 00:05:16,564 --> 00:05:18,404 Speaker 3: with it. It's not we're not doing it for the elites. 115 00:05:18,444 --> 00:05:21,884 Speaker 3: We're doing it. This is this is a design for 116 00:05:21,964 --> 00:05:24,084 Speaker 3: the people, so that your people who would come in 117 00:05:24,124 --> 00:05:26,684 Speaker 3: those days. He wasn't Shakespeare wasn't saying I just want 118 00:05:26,684 --> 00:05:28,684 Speaker 3: the elite to like this, and all the groundlings who 119 00:05:28,724 --> 00:05:29,884 Speaker 3: stand in front of him, I want them to be 120 00:05:29,884 --> 00:05:31,964 Speaker 3: bored as well. He didn't want that. He wanted everyone 121 00:05:31,964 --> 00:05:35,364 Speaker 3: to grab it. So that's what we did, and you're you're. 122 00:05:35,244 --> 00:05:36,444 Speaker 2: Going to be bringing it, so you're going to get 123 00:05:36,484 --> 00:05:38,884 Speaker 2: the each of your characters. They don't have an agent 124 00:05:38,924 --> 00:05:40,644 Speaker 2: as well, because that would be a lot of agents. 125 00:05:40,684 --> 00:05:42,884 Speaker 2: There'd be a lot of commissions that you have to pay. 126 00:05:43,004 --> 00:05:46,364 Speaker 3: A lot of commissions. But no, it's all it's all 127 00:05:46,724 --> 00:05:49,604 Speaker 3: just me, but me separating my characters as I have 128 00:05:49,684 --> 00:05:53,124 Speaker 3: done in comedy for many years, having come from pythoness 129 00:05:53,244 --> 00:05:56,044 Speaker 3: sketch comedy, playing different characters with different voices. You can 130 00:05:56,124 --> 00:05:59,404 Speaker 3: change the voice, you can change the physicality of a 131 00:05:59,484 --> 00:06:02,444 Speaker 3: performer and their arcs in the in the story will 132 00:06:02,444 --> 00:06:04,884 Speaker 3: be in a different place. So Selena Kadell, my director, 133 00:06:04,924 --> 00:06:07,044 Speaker 3: was very good at making sure that I was in 134 00:06:07,084 --> 00:06:10,363 Speaker 3: the right place for when when Hamlet is really laying 135 00:06:10,404 --> 00:06:14,444 Speaker 3: into a feliure that she is falling apart here and 136 00:06:14,484 --> 00:06:17,284 Speaker 3: he is being this brutal person thinking this is the 137 00:06:17,324 --> 00:06:19,124 Speaker 3: way he's going to survive and not really carrying a 138 00:06:19,204 --> 00:06:21,484 Speaker 3: damn about what's happening to her, and she ends up 139 00:06:22,004 --> 00:06:24,284 Speaker 3: spoiler alert and not having a good time about. 140 00:06:24,124 --> 00:06:27,644 Speaker 1: It, So, oh, you've wacked the end of Thanks well 141 00:06:28,044 --> 00:06:28,364 Speaker 1: not to. 142 00:06:28,284 --> 00:06:30,724 Speaker 3: Have a good time, she could just you know, move 143 00:06:30,804 --> 00:06:33,164 Speaker 3: to a good time. 144 00:06:33,404 --> 00:06:35,004 Speaker 2: This is going to be a great show. For tickets 145 00:06:35,124 --> 00:06:38,324 Speaker 2: to and tour information, head to ticket teck dot com 146 00:06:38,364 --> 00:06:41,604 Speaker 2: dot are you It's next year in June twenty twenty six. 147 00:06:41,884 --> 00:06:45,284 Speaker 3: Heal will thank you very much and anyone who's got 148 00:06:45,284 --> 00:06:47,964 Speaker 3: their tickets for the The Remix show, I will be 149 00:06:48,004 --> 00:06:50,404 Speaker 3: returning in May. Go to Edison dot com. The details 150 00:06:50,404 --> 00:06:51,804 Speaker 3: will all be coming up in the next twenty four 151 00:06:51,804 --> 00:06:54,924 Speaker 3: hours and your your tickets will be honest. So I'll 152 00:06:54,924 --> 00:06:56,563 Speaker 3: be back and I'm performing everything. 153 00:06:56,684 --> 00:06:59,244 Speaker 2: That's the comedy agent's job, though, so just let them 154 00:06:59,244 --> 00:07:04,364 Speaker 2: handle that, Okay, confusing, My messaging is a little confusing, 155 00:07:04,484 --> 00:07:08,564 Speaker 2: Not at all, not at all. Thank you for joining us. 156 00:07:09,364 --> 00:07:10,644 Speaker 3: Thank you to se