Read our. Doon Mackichan tells Nick Curtis about the painful years that have left her fearless and funnier than ever. "If you're the only woman on a bill, and you are crap, they never say you weren't funny, it's always that women aren't funny," she says. Andrew is on sabbatical but Phil is soldiering on to help you decide between the Merlot and the Marlowe and generally putting London's West End theatre to rights, Phil felt unmoved to bother writing about his last few theatrical disappointments, he’d been catching up on shows in the last weeks of their runs anyway. OTHER THEATRE INCLUDES: The Government Inspector, A Respectable Wedding (Young Vic); Loot (Tricycle); Boeing Boeing (West End); Excuses (ATC/Soho); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Almeida/International tour); Mother Courage (National); The Queen and I (Leicester Haymarket); Emma (Watford Palace); me and My Friend (Minerva, Chichester); Abigail’s Party (Cambridge Theatre/tour); The Square BAC); ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore (Stepehn Joseph Studio, Scarborough); To Kill A Mockingbird (Birmingham Rep). Looking for something to watch?
Their eldest child, India, "had one of the hardest jobs, just being in the world, going to school, and everyone asking how Louis was". Frances gets the play's most savagely funny lines: "Why does anyone have children? The Whingers dropped in to the Leicester Square Theatre on Thursday evening when the line up (which varies from night to night) featured CA creators Eugene Pack and Dayle Reyfel plus Bridget Christie, Doon Mackichan, James Lance, Tiffany Stevenson, Smack The Pony‘s Doon Mackichan, Ugly Betty‘s Michael Urie and someone called David Tennant. found: Millar, M. Emma, 2001: title page (Doon Mackichan) cover (Doon MacKichan) page 1 (Doon Mackichan studied drama at Manchester University and has since worked extensively in theatre, radio, television and film. "The first one I did was about an actress taking her clothes off for a director while doing her [audition] speech, a kind of clown routine.". Later in 2011, she played the part of Frances in April de Angelis' play 'Jumpy' at the Royal Court Theatre. I felt so guilty and horrified.
This post is briefly to say that Phil has been called upon to verify Andrew’s gushing Edinburgh review of Celebrity Autobiography and has concurred with the findings of Andrew’s original report. Read the rest of this entry », Posted in West End Whingers | 7 Comments » Tags: Bridget Christie, Celebrity Autobiography, comedy, David Tennant, Dayle Reyfel, Doon Mackichan, Eugene Pack, James Lance, Leicester Square Theatre, London, Michael Urie, review, Tiffany Stevenson. Mackichan made her television debut in comedy series Five Alive, shown by Channel 4 between 1987 and 1988, along with Brian Conley (also making his television debut), Peter Piper, Joanna Brookes and Andrew Secombe. When she came offstage after Jumpy's burlesque scene one night, a gobsmacked actor said: "You just don't care, do you?"
And how entertaining. In 2017 she played Feste in the Royal National Theatre's production of Twelfth Night and television film Death on the Tyne in 2018. Read the rest of this entry », Posted in West End Whingers | 6 Comments » Tags: Amanda Lawrence, David Harrower, Doon Mackichan, entertainment, Government Inspector, Julian Barratt, Kyle Soller, London, Louise Brealey, Nikolai Gogol, off-West End, play, review, Richard Jones, theatre, Young Vic. Played in "A Respectable Wedding" by Bertolt Brecht - Young Vic Theatre, London (2007). Sloane Square She also appeared in the sitcoms Beast and Bedtime, and was a regular performer in Knowing Me, Knowing You... with Alan Partridge and The Mary Whitehouse Experience. We had to be like nurses for Louis. Then her middle child and only son Louis, then 11, was diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukaemia. Mackichan was born in Westminster, London, and brought up in Wentworth, Surrey, until the age of 12, when she and her family moved to Upper Largo, Fife. Then we took our eyes off the road and somehow time sneaked up from behind, overtaking recklessly, driving off the highway of life and leaving us temporarily stranded in the lay-by of middle age.
Known For The Glam Metal Detectives Doon / Betty / Morag / Various Roles / Mary Pippins / Various roles (1995) Plebs Flavia (2013-2018) The Day …
It is a barnstorming, scene-stealing showstopper of a performance. And by avoiding the disappointments of theatre he’s been able to enjoy being disappointed by some over-praised films. [2], Mackichan swam the English Channel in 1998, as part of a six-person relay team.
On stage, she appeared with Matt Di Angelo and David Haig in the Joe Orton black farce Loot. [1] Mackichan lived in Clapham, south London, with her three children from her marriage to actor Anthony Barclay, from whom she was divorced in 2005. Mackichan appeared as the Archangel Michael in the Amazon Prime/BBC mini-series Good Omens and as Sarah in Channel 4 comedy-drama Pure in 2019.
She’s 50 and suffering panic attacks; presumably the Jumpy of the title (another titular reference is revealed at the end). Since 2013, Mackichan has starred in Toast of London as Steven Toast's (Matt Berry) quirky agent Jane Plough. Alan Partridge: Why, When, Where, How and Whom?
Because they're selfish and don't want to be lonely!". As this man has pointed out, there is a new theatrical trend in town – culling of definite article.
Really, her life couldn't be further from her character in Jumpy. ROYAL COURT THEATRE Hard to believe, but even the Whingers were young once. She has appeared twice on the BBC panel show QI, in series C, episode 2, (Cummingtonite, 2005) and series E episode 11, (Endings, 2007). She is an actress and writer, known for, Doon / Betty / Morag / Various Roles / Mary Pippins / Various roles, Collaterlie Sisters / Maria - The Bureau / Suzanna Gekkaloys / Alternative Medicine Doctor / Beverley Smax / Camfam Mother / Charlene Gray / Collately Sisters / Hamble - Backstreet Dentist / Katrina Parfitt / Kendal Ball / Lisa / Maria -The Bureau / Merrily H. Dodd / Mr. Eddie's Wife / Not Cool Woman / Pheeona Haahlahm / Sarah Eughopps / Swimming Pool Receptionist / Tanya / Thea Peachman / Tokyo Reporter / Vicky - Swimming Pool Receptionist, Mandy review – from naked sushi model to tarantula assassin, Trailer For Ben Wheatley's Family Reunion Comedy Happy New Year, Colin Burstead, First Trailer for Ben Wheatley's Film 'Happy New Year, Colin Burstead', The Very Last Day of the Rest of Their Lives, Darren Boyd's Little Cracker: Le Concert De L'ecole, Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown, Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge. Read the rest of this entry », Posted in West End Whingers | 48 Comments » Tags: Doon Mackichan, Joe Orton, Kilburn, London, Loot, Matt Di Angelo, off-West End, review, Sean Holmes, theatre, Tricycle Theatre, "Full of trivial opinions" Michael Coveney, Review – Celebrity Autobiography, Leicester Square Theatre, Review - Over There by Mark Ravenhill, Royal Court, Review - Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, National Theatre, Review - Peter Pan Goes Wrong, Apollo Theatre, Review - Dick Whittington with Joan Collins, Birmingham Hippodrome, Review - A Delicate Balance, Almeida Theatre, The Whingers apologise to The Independent.
"I got into stand-up because I got interested in writing monologues," she says. Doon Mackichan tells Nick Curtis about the painful years that have left her fearless and funnier than ever. OTHER THEATRE INCLUDES: The Government Inspector, A Respectable Wedding (Young Vic); Loot (Tricycle); Boeing Boeing (West End); Excuses (ATC/Soho); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Almeida/International tour); Mother Courage (National); The Queen and I (Leicester Haymarket); Emma (Watford Palace); me and My Friend … Loot is at the Tricycle, London NW6, from December 11. Register with your social account or click here to log in. "You're not one of these mad women who don't respect boundaries, are you?" Posts about Doon Mackichan written by Phil (a west end whinger) and Andrew. Doon Mackichan was born in August 1962 in London, England as Sarah-Doon Mackichan. "There were some wild nights - god, I sound like a right old slag - of getting drunk and not necessarily going to bed with people but behaving slightly out of control. RADIO INLCUDES: Back to Hellespont, Carbon Cleansing, Buy Me Up, Confessions of a Bad Mother, Wild Things, The Wolves of Willoughby Hall, Don’t East the Neighbours, Trixie Trader, The Tortoise and the Hare, Doon Your Way, Knowing Me, Knowing You, The Nick Revell Show, On the Hour, Rabbitt and Doon, The Go Slow Club. Sarah-Doon Mackichan (born 7 August 1962) is a British comedian and actor. She is an actress and writer, known for The Glam Metal … This enabled her to hold her own against the big personalities in some of the early Comic Strip films, and effectively to resign as the token woman in the early days of the boys' club that was the Mary Whitehouse Experience. What a shambles. She has played Cathy in the BBC comedy Two Doors Down since 2013. Posts Tagged ‘Doon Mackichan’ Review – Twelfth Night, National Theatre Wednesday 22 February 2017. First, her father-in-law and her beloved father Rocky both died, very swiftly, of cancer. Choose an adventure below and discover your next favorite movie or TV show.