Advocates: Liza Goddard

Liza Goddard is an actor who has had success on both stage and screen. She has appeared in a number of Alan Ayckbourn world premieres as well as revivals directed by the playwright.

Quotes

"All of my contemporaries have done his work, but I had never been in an Ayckbourn play until two years ago. And I was so glad I waited because only Alan knows how to really direct his own plays."
(2008)

"Alan is simply the best director I have ever worked with. The thing with Alan is that you have to learn everything word perfect. You can't just ad lib a line because it's all so perfectly written. Each character has their own rhythm and they are all so perfectly written that you have to get them right."
(2008)

"What makes Alan so amazing. It's this extraordinary ability to understand a character, to understand exactly how that character is feeling and why. When you ask Alan a question you realise that he knows these characters inside out and you just thing 'how can you know about that, it's not part of your experience? Yet you seem to understand.' That's why Alan is so extraordinary."
(2008)

"He never overworks you. Before you come into rehearsals you know exactly what you are doing - everything is so meticulously planned out in a schedule so you can work on things before you arrive and it also means that he is so organised that you will have had 10 or 12 full run throughs before the opening night, so there's never a sense of feeling unprepared."
(2008)

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