Yes. I lived in Dunedin for the whole of 1985 when I was a member of the Fortune Theatre Company. I have only worked in Dunedin on one occasion since then, when I was invited to co-star in Private Lives in 1999.
Q Anything you're keen to do while you're here?
I'm keen to catch up with my Dunedin friends and get in some good long walks around the beaches and peninsula.
Q Why are the performing arts important?
The performing arts are important because they are a celebration and concentration of our humanity. Someone once described the performing arts as "life, with the boring bits left out".
Q Describe your show in one sentence.
My life, with the boring bits left out. Or, as one reviewer put it, "very funny, very musical and gleefully preoccupied with sex". I take great offence at the first two comments.
Q Is it exciting/nerve-racking performing in a new place?
It's always exciting and sometimes nerve-racking. They are both adrenaline-fuelled, fight-or-flight responses. The only difference between them is whether you are in control of the adrenaline, or it is in charge of you.
Q What's a song you love?
Any of the Richard Strauss' Four Last Songs and Dusty Springfield singing You don't have to say you love me. It has haunted me, in a nice way, all my life, since I first heard it on the radio when I was a kid. Those harmonies! That voice! That key change!
Q What makes you smile?
Talent. Spring. The sound of a symphony orchestra. My two goddaughters.
Q Tell us something most people don't know about you.
Mmmm. Well, after you've seen this show ... not much.
• Tic Tic is on at the HMNZS Toroa hall at 8pm today and tomorrow.
