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News The Rocky Horror Show Tamsin stuck in a time warp
News The Rocky Horror Show Tamsin stuck in a time warp | Tamsin stuck in a time warp |
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| Written by Nadine | |
| Tuesday, 12 February 2008 | |
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The Daily Telegraph had an interview with Tamsin in today's paper. I'll scan it later in the week, but the text is below. According to the Telegraph, the show will be playing in Sydney until September 7.
The Rocky Horror Show Star Theatre Musical She was performing on the set of a television series with her dad when she was four, a member of the actors' union at seven and playing small roles on stage -- you might say Tamsin Carroll was destined to be an actress. ``It was so wonderful being around the theatre and on film and television sets with Dad [Peter Carroll],'' she says. ``But I didn't want to be a child actor because I knew I'd be getting around to it later on. ``It was pretty evident when I came home singing Don't Cry For Me Argentina when Dad was in Evita in the early '80s that there was never going to be a doctor in the family, no matter how hard I tried to apply myself.'' Carroll, whose mother, a theatre historian, had ``a great passion for the arts which she instilled in me'', takes to the stage in another musical blockbuster tonight when The Rocky Horror Show opens with preview performances. Carroll plays Magenta, a vampy alien maid from transsexual Transylvania who, with Frank-N-Furter (played by iOTA), Riff Raff (Paul Capsis) and Columbia (Sharon Millerchip), take us on a ``strange journey''. ``I'm the luckiest girl in the show because my brother in the show is Paul Capsis, who I've wanted to work with forever and ever,'' says Carroll. ``My father has worked with him, and here we finally get together as brother and sister but in the worst way. ``Paul is a fount of invention, the kind of performer who is very brave with his choices. ``All the characters have some identifiable nature, because the show is about human nature.'' Carroll says she has also revelled in working with director Gale Edwards, who spent the first days of rehearsals with the cast just rereading Richard O'Brien's script, looking for new layers in story and character 35 years after the show made its debut in a small London theatre. ``What Gale tends to do with things is say `what more can it be?' Not that things need to change, but what layers can we add to this basic structure that has worked so brilliantly for more than 30 years,'' she says. ``So in the first days of rehearsals we had this extraordinary discussion and read the script over and over and found so much more depth to it than we expected. I think Gale is undervalued in this country. ``She's a fantastic, intelligent and creative human being. If she said she was doing a production of people reading the racing form guide I'd go `pick me'.'' The Rocky Horror Show, which premiered in Australia in 1974, garnered cult status around the world, spurred by the 1975 film version starring Tim Curry, when audiences dressed as their favourite characters would replicate the singing and dancing on screen or stage. Its musical soundtrack includes the pelvic-thrusting The Time Warp, I'm Just A Sweet Transvestite, Science Fiction/Double Feature and I'm Going Home. Carroll says singer-songwriter turned actor iOTA performing I'm Going Home will provide a special moment for audiences. ``He's fantastic, it's very moving the way he does it,'' she says. Aside from her nerves playing up as usual -- ``I always feel sick before opening night'' -- Carroll is concerned about the effects of strutting her stuff on stage while wearing a tight corset. ``We'll all be losing weight,'' she says. ``It's hard work doing The Time Warp while wearing this gear.'' * Star Theatre, Star City Casino, Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont; from tonight, $69.90-$89.90, 1300795267, ticketmaster.com.au |
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