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What do you have on your backstage rider?
‘Ha ha! No rider for me. However, I always bring Lucozade and bananas with me. Rock ’n’ roll!’
Do you have a pre-show ritual?
‘I warm up for an hour before the show and I have certain things that I’ll do in my dressing room: listening to music, leaning out of the window and looking up at the sky to remind myself of the vastness of the universe.’
Do you get nervous before a show?
‘I wouldn’t say nervous. I feel a responsibility to make every show the best it can possibly be. Knowing that most people will only see it once means that all the work you’ve done and all the previous shows count for nothing if this isn’t going to be the best one yet.’
Do you have a favourite dressing room or theatre to work in?
‘The National Theatre. The dressing rooms all have windows surrounding a big atrium in the building so you can see people on different levels of each theatre in their different costumes getting ready to go on. The tradition of everyone banging on the windows for any of the cast’s first or last nights is pretty special.’
Do you have any fun stories about sharing a dressing room?
‘Last year at the National Theatre I shared a dressing room with Marilyn and Audrey, the trained rats who play Toby in “The Curious Incident…”. I had a massive cage and would carry one round to the backstage area at half time, ready for their “entrance” in part two. They were lovely dressing-room company.’
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