(Caitlin Moran's article appeared in the Times of London, November 12.) 

Eddie Izzard: 'I keep thinking if I do all these things she'll come back'

The death of Eddie Izzard's mother when he was aged 5 haunts him. He reveals why it still drives him 

We’re four rows from the front of the MEN Arena, Manchester. With 13,000 people sitting behind us, these are pretty much the best seats in the house — yet, still: we can’t see Eddie Izzard’s eyes.

Well, more specifically, there’s no time to look at Eddie Izzard’s eyes while he’s humming and buzzing across the stage, like some super-bright sunshine kid in full-on “delight” mode. You have time only to register his grin — like a predatory Cheshire cat — as the characters fall out of his one-man phantasmagorical ensemble pieces.

Here comes a traumatised squirrel from Brooklyn; a raptor in a pork-pie hat being pulled over for speeding; a Persian soldier very slowly impaling himself on Spartan spears at Thermopylae. Caring sharks. An entire swarm of bees.

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/comedy/article6912720.ece

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