Crazy Ruby ; My Mad Mother, Bullying Father and the Evil Nanny Who Tried to Destroy My Marriage (2) Ruby Wax On Her Family and Her Latest Stage Role
Daily Mail › February 01, 2005
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RUBY WAX plays a childhating witch in a new stage incarnation. She drew inspiration for the part from her own mother, whose deranged rants punctuated the darkness of her girlhood.
'My witch is not a stereotype cackling hag,' says Ruby. 'She is an elegant diva and shares the same voice rhythms as my mother, who could be very charming and childlike one minute, then just turn and attack without warning.See the full content of this document
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Crazy Ruby ; My Mad Mother, Bullying Father and the Evil Nanny Who Tried to Destroy My Marriage (2) Ruby Wax On Her Family and Her Latest Stage Role
It was very scary for a child.' Wax demonstrates, assuming a lisping Teutonic falsetto that moves seamlessly into a snarling vituperation, laced with poisonous sarcasm.
It's perfect for the part of the Grand High Witch in the musical version of Roald Dahl's tale for children The Witches.Ruby's mother Berta - once beautiful, sophisticated and highly intelligent, but also unhinged - was an Au...See the full content of this document
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