Summary
When life hands you lemons, there's nothing for it but to get squeezing. Emerging from a hellish three years that brought the collapse of her marriage and the death of her father, among other horrors, comedian Doon Mackichan found herself suffering a kind of "sonic disturbance".
She was starring in a Joe Orton play and returning to her south London home afterwards to sit and stare into space. "I wanted it dark," she says. "I had to have silence. I sat there like a zombie, and thought that I had to write about what had happened."See the full content of this document
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Art Out of Pain
Mackichan, as befits a woman who became a household name (or several, since it's regularly mispronounced) with the TV shows Smack The Pony, The Day Today and Brass Eye, has not lost her sense of humour. Her version of lemonade, Primadoona, is a one-woman theatrical roller-coaster ride - you'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll be amazed - through hell and back. It is, she explains, her way of mak...
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