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Festival Review: Liz Aggiss–The English Channel *****
Posted by Across the Arts on August 27, 2015, at 11.27pm
Lorna Irvine reviews a production with a woman who’s ‘hilarious and badass’.
That Liz Aggiss is not a daily part of the school curriculum, along with free dinners, free speech and any kind of hope whatsoever is a national disgrace. A bleedin’ disgrace, mister.
Liz is that fiercest of women–like Viv Albertine, Pam Hogg, Siouxsie and Diane Torr, she refuses to sit down and shut up.
Whether wearing a cloak of invisibility, staring out a skull or puckishly referencing children’s favourites like Robin Hood, this is a many spangled one finger to the ageing process and mortality–and a shout out to spirited females everywhere. She wears her eccentricities wilfully–and she’s hilarious and badass.
Whether mimicking Max Wall or shimmying to a lounge version of The Dead Kennedys’ ‘Too Drunk to Fuck’, she doesn’t need your permission to be naughty.
She’s performance artist, go-go dancer and bouffon, but with the grace of a ballet coryphee and spit of punk.
And today, us old women over 40 who refuse to settle down, plus a new audience of young kids, fell a little bit in love with her. Boiled sweet, anyone? She keeps ’em in ‘er knickers, you know.
Liz Aggiss-The English Channel runs at Zoo Pleasance until the end of August.
Tags: theatre edfest events music
Comments: 1 (Add)
wolfington on September 2, 2015, at 1.03pm
Well thanks for this Laura. What day were you there? Did I see your knees going up as you left? This is the sweetie lady by the way. Liz has a new piece on the way. Keep in touch!
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