Carrie's Wishful Drinking
September 23rd 2010 05:45
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Carrie Fisher
Extremely funny full-frontal confession. Carrie Fisher makes you feel like you've arrived for a slumber party to swap confidences. You're going to like it. A Lot.
- Ben Brantley, New York Times
- Ben Brantley, New York Times
Winning and Hilarious! Carrie Fisher is witty, likable, acerbic, clever and wryly forthcoming about the warped reality of life in the celebrity bubble.
- David Rooney, Variety
- David Rooney, Variety
Broadway's new Queen of Comedy!
- Pat Collins, WWOR TV
- Pat Collins, WWOR TV
HOLLYWOOD ICON CARRIE FISHER TO PERFORM HER HIT
BROADWAY PLAY WISHFUL DRINKING IN ADELAIDE
THE RAUCOUS, RAW AND INTOXICATING TRUE STORY OF HER LIFE
If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.
- Carrie Fisher
- Carrie Fisher
Direct from a highly successful Broadway run WISHFUL DRINKING, Carrie Fisher's hit stage production of the intoxicating autobiographical tale of her life, will come to Adelaide's Her Majesty's Theatre from 10 to 12 November as part of a five city national tour from 19th October 2010. Tickets for the Adelaide performances go on sale on Monday 27 September through BASS.
An actress, screenwriter and best-selling author ("Postcards from the Edge", "Wishful Drinking"), Carrie Fisher is the daughter of singer Eddie Fisher and actress Debbie Reynolds. She became a cultural icon at age 19 after starring as Princess Leia in the first "Star Wars" trilogy in the 1970s.
Sydney at the State Theatre Oct 19-20
Melbourne at the Athenaeum Theatre Oct 22-27
Canberra at the Canberra Theatre Nov 4-6
Adelaide at Her Majesty's Theatre Nov 10-12
Perth at the Regal Theatre Nov 15-18
From stardom to divorce, re-marriage to the death of a close friend, addiction to mental illness and medication, Fisher recounts her peaks and valleys with unfailing candour and biting humour.
In WISHFUL DRINKING, Fisher details her complicated and impressive family tree in Hollywood 101 at Wishful Drinking University, employing a blackboard and wooden pointer. Fisher and her brother lived through her parents' multiple marriages and blended families, watching their "white-hot bright star of celebrity slowly dim, cool and fade" while they lived in a house she likened to an air conditioner complete with eight little pink refrigerators. In 1973, at her mother's urging, the 17-year-old Fisher enrolled at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London; two years later, her life changed forever when she donned a white dress as Princess Leia in George Lucas' Star Wars.
Besides making her a star, the movie resulted in Fisher's image being merchandised as part of a growing Star Wars franchise. Among the items she adorned were dolls, shampoo, soap, Mrs. Potato Head and a PEZ dispenser. Fisher hilariously notes that among his many possessions, Lucas owns her likeness, "so every time I look in the mirror, I have to send him a couple of bucks."
Fisher's realization of her addiction in her early 20s was followed by periods of sobriety and relapse. With extraordinary candour, she discusses her subsequent bi-polar diagnosis, which took her through a wide range of emotions on any given day. Fisher likens the changeability of her mood to the weather, observing that "the facts of your life remain the same, just the emotional fiction that you're responding to differs." She recalls the important decision to have Electric Shock Therapy (ECT) with typical humour, saying, "Have you guys seen 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?' Wasn't I great in that?"
Fisher's one-woman stage show Wishful Drinking opened in Los Angeles in 2006 and has been performed in Boston, Seattle, Washington DC and many other cities. It was produced on Broadway in 2009 by Roundabout Theatre Company. This Australian tour will be the first performance outside of the U.S. and will be produced in Australia by Malcolm C. Cooke on behalf of the William May Corporation.
Wishful Drinking
Sydney at the State Theatre Oct 19-20
Melbourne at the Athenaeum Theatre Oct 22-27
Canberra at the Canberra Theatre Nov 4-6
Adelaide at Her Majesty's Theatre Nov 10-12
Perth at the Regal Theatre Nov 15-18
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