‘I’m constantly ready to go on stage,’ Suzy Izzard says the day we meet in Melbourne.
The 64-year-old Emmy Award-winning comedian, actor, activist, multi-marathon runner and two-time British Labour Party candidate isn’t short of energy or chutzpah.
Though famed internationally for her particular brand of Monty Python-inspired surreal, existential, tangential comedy – which she performs not only in English but in French, Spanish and German, with plans to also perform in Russian and Arabic – her Hamlet, she insists, is no joke.
