After years of panic attacks, the beloved Australian comedian realised her job was making her unhappy. Now she’s back on stage – as an actor in Beckett’s tragicomedy Happy Days
It was around the time that a 25-year-old Lucy discovered – as a consequence of a drunken family Christmas – she was adopted. Her father told her he figured she wouldn’t want to know; her adoptive mother, Ann, tried to pretend she’d just forgotten. It turned out Lucy’s biological mother lived not that far away; she had gone to school with her biological cousins without knowing it.“I spent the first 25 years of my life thinking I was Irish, then found out I was Aussie as,” Lucy says.
“It has taken me a long time to realise this, but standup didn’t suit my personality. That sounds incredibly wanky – it sounds so ridiculous for someone who makes a living out of talking to strangers to say, ‘I’m so shy!’” she says, mockingly. “But it takes its toll on me.”Photograph: Eugene Hyland/The Guardian
“Once you really look climate change in the eye, that’s it,” she says. “I honestly never really wanted to have kids, but to put climate in the mix of such an extraordinarily difficult decision – my heart goes out to people who are dealing with that.” So much of Overwhelmed and Living was not about Lucy facing her fears, but also her working out what actually makes her happy. Happiness, she thinks, “is a bit like doing Beckett – you have one second before you die where you go, ‘I’ve worked it all out!’ and you keel over.
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