"I've got an exercise book from when I was eight that says 'I just want to be an actress and be happy!'"

This week, Ali and Nat ad lib with their great friend, actress Elizabeth Edmonds, about her incredible career, working alongside screen icons such as Alan Bates, Glenda Jackson and Joan Sims, bumming a ciggy off of one of the Beatles (imagine?!), and the career highlight of playing a goldfish at the 2018 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Like Ali and Nat, Liz has worked extensively in performing arts education and formed her successful West London based company, Drama Queens, 18 years ago, after the birth of her second child, Kitty.

Liz is a HOOT! She will have you in stitches with her stories (unless you're her husband, who has apparently heard them all at least "47 times before"). She also speaks honestly about sustaining  an acting career as a woman while juggling parenthood. Liz is simply unforgettable - you'll feel like you've known her a lifetime once you've finished listening to the podcast - and reveals whether she did indeed realise the dream written in her exercise book at the age of eight of becoming an actress and being happy...

WARNING - EXPLICIT LANGUAGE! Liz is a right potty mouth and does do a couple of swears in this episode, so be aware if you, or anybody listening with you, are sensitive to explicit language. However, the subjects that are covered are just as you'd expect from an Ad Libbing Podcast and for all audiences.

Episode links;

Drama Queens - https://dramaqueens.org/

Pauline Quirke Academy of Performing Arts https://www.pqacademy.com/

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Original theme music by Olivia Bromley and Oz Wills. Thanks, guys - still loving it!