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Liz Carr

LIZ CARR

  

Nationality:    British
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In 2003, I became a student on the Graeae Theatre Company performing Arts training course for disabled people, Missing Piece 3. the culmination of this was the professional production of Brecht's Mother Courage directed by Jan Willem Van den Bosch. I played the role of Mother Courage in this well received Greater London tour performing at venues such as Riverside and the Young Vic. Since then, amongst others, I have played the Guide in Brecht's the exception and the Rule at the Young Vic Theatre, I have worked with Paines Plough Theatre Company at the Young Vic, I was in the chorus of the Vagina Monologues at the Cochrane Theatre and was cast as MAdame de Twitville in Moliere's farcical, George Dandin by Graeae Theatre Company. In last couple of years, I have become involved in the world of burlesque after working with Jo King and theLondon School of Striptease. Our first show in 2007, with 2 other disabled teasers, was called Peelers On Wheels, followed by Vegetable Peelers in 2008. I now occasionally perform under the burlesque name, Funny Divine. In august 2008 I became a member of the Rhinestone Rollers -a spoof all women, wheelchair using line dancing troupe. I was commissioned in 2007 by Wolverhampton Arena Theatre to write and perform in my first one woman show, 'It Hasn't Happened Yet!'. Based on a disabled woman's experience of the stand-up comedy world, I was directed by Huw Thomas (Downstairs at the Kings Head) and mentored by Gordon Anderson (League of Gentlemen and Catherine Tate). Following it's success, the play will be showcased in 2009 at the Soho Theatre, various UK comedy festivals and at disability festivals in New Zealand and Australia. I am a member of equity and have recently been awarded a bursary for the actor's Centre, London.

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below is a list of Liz Carr's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

        Assisted Suicide: The Musical         It Hasn't Happened Yet!



Assisted Suicide: The Musical

Synopsis:
Disabled activist, actor and comedian Liz Carr has chosen the spectacular world of musical theatre as the backdrop to exploring the complex and controversial subject of assisted suicide in her new show Assisted Suicide: The Musical. In 2015, MPs voted overwhelmingly against legalising assisted suicide. Opinion polls would have you believe that the majority of the UK population believe it's a humane choice to legalise assisted suicide for terminally ill or disabled people, but Liz Carr, and many other disabled people disagree. Confronting the lack of creative work exploring this most topical taboo, she joins director Mark Whitelaw, composer Ian Hill and a cast of actors to express an important and often unheard perspective; through the medium of musical theatre.

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It Hasn't Happened Yet!

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Based on a disabled woman's experience of the stand-up comedy world

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