Postby Tim Kelly » Fri Jun 18, 2021 6:40 pm
There was a play on the London stage a few years back called "The Audience" in which Liz met all the British Prime Ministers from Churchill (during his second term, 1951-55) to Major (1990-97); the play is notable for an incident during the interval when Helen Mirren (who was playing Liz) went out into the street to remonstrate with some street musicians who were making so much noise that the actors couldn't be heard, while she was still in costume and STILL IN CHARACTER; after she had said her piece ("One's audience has come a long way and spent a LOT of money to see one on the stage and NOT to listen to you lot, so why don't you all just NAFF ORFF and make that racket somewhere else?!") and gone back into the theatre the musicians said,
"Dude, we've just been bawled out...by the QUEEN!"
"Yeah man, we'd better, like, split, before she sets the Household Cavalry on us!"
Pity that it wasn't Hayden Gwynne who had gone outside, because SHE was playing...Thatcher! Who had just died! Imagine their reaction....
"Aaaaaaaarrrrrgggghhh!!!! She's BACK! From the DEAD! Zombie Thatcher!"
"Aaaaaarrrrrrggggghhhhh! Quicksand! I'm sinking! I'll go straight to the bottom of.......GLURP!"
(a month later)
"Ugh! Yukkkh! Ptui! I'm out of it! I'm free! Not even quicksand can defeat the power of.....the Eye of Zoltec!"