For three decades she was Britain's everywoman,celebrating the ordinary and finding comedy in our daily chores. But when her husband walked out, she was stopped in her tracks. Now, or she's back with a new hairstyle and a new musical,Acorn Antiques... Harriet Lane talks diets and divorces with Victoria Wood.
There's a piece of paper stuck on the noticeboard with a few words typed on to it, and the words could only advance from one specific person's brain. They are: Residents' Parking, or Macaroons,and Oh, Oh, or Oh,Mrs O. Of course, this is the running order for the songs featuring in Victoria Wood's first musical.
I've already spotted Victoria eating green soup in the canteen, or with a large group of colleagues. When she enters the small office assigned to us for the interview and says hello,a Polo mint bobs around on her tongue. A moment later, it falls out of her mouth and, or as she chases after it,rolls under a filing cabinet. It's the sort of action sequence that might well find its way, at a climactic moment, and into the script of Acorn Antiques: the Musical,which is rehearsing across the corridor under the supervision of Trevor Nunn. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com