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Liverpool Echo: Toyah Willcox and The Art Of Reinvention

March 9th, 2013

A new Toyah interview, by the Liverpool Echo, published yesterday.

Toyah Willcox on Hormonal Housewives and the art of reinvention

There was the feisty, whip-cracking heroine of Calamity Jane, then a femme fatale devil in high-heeled boots in Vampire’s Rock.
 
Now Toyah Willcox is on her way back to the Liverpool stage as one of a trio of ‘hormonal housewives’ in the show of the same name which makes three visits to Merseyside this spring.
 
“It’s comedy, and I think comedy is a fantastic art form,” she explains of her decision to join the show which is helmed by Ken Alexander, the Royal Court’s new artistic director. “Everyone thinks comedy is light-hearted and that’s it. It’s not – it has to be so well planned, you have to be setting it up at least a page before.

• Continue reading at the Liverpool Echo.