Liz Kingsman has vaulted from 'silly, stupid' sketches in university to London's West End — and now Sydney Opera House — with her hit One Woman Show, which skewers cliches.
Kingsman has described the excess of cynically made confessional theatre following Fleabag as a "feeding frenzy".Early life on stage
It's the same excitement she feels days out from her first show at the Sydney Opera House , and that she felt in December when she debuted One Woman Show on the West End. While she did perform in high school plays, she mostly spent her teenage years reading books, going to film clubs, and watching a friend perform with the Australian Theatre for Young People , admiring the stage from afar."In order to do it, I'd have to say aloud: 'I'm looking to do that.' So I just never told anyone or did anything about acting on any front."
These years instilled a knack for "working under pressure in last-minute situations, like when you've got a show to open at 8pm and you're still halfway through your tech [rehearsal]," she says.
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