by Priscilla

Apr.30, 2010, under Cast Blog

The costumes are something I’m still having to adjust to. I’ve just come back from physio, because the high heels make you stand in a totally different way and you end up compensating in your pelvis and tightening muscles in your calves. The corset is not the most comfortable thing either.

Don Gallagher

As an actor it is always rewarding to perform comedy, particularly in front of a live audience, because you get that instant gratification and response from them. In a show like this when the normal reaction is in the stratosphere somewhere, it makes it a real pleasure.

Within the context of the script, you play lines differently depending on the audience. For example, in the exchange with Shirley, “Listen here you mullet. Why don’t you light your tampon and blow your box apart, because it is the only bang you are going to get sweetheart?” Now that has three different laughs, but depending how the first line is received, you will play the second one differently and depending on how that goes you will either play the third on its tail or leave a gap. That is part of the pleasure. Each night and performance is different.

People should come and see Priscilla because it is hugely entertaining and it will send you out elated. I had four friends from my village in West Sussex come in last night. Two I knew would love it and two I thought would hate it as they were very conservative types, but they adored it. So it appeals to a very wide spectrum of people. If you want to come along and be entertained come and see us. It is a story of discovery and acceptance. Everyone regardless of sexual orientation or race strives for acceptance within their own little spheres. This is in a bigger scale and in a camp way, but that is why people identify with it, because it is part of the human condition.