Performance
"A dark and challenging piece of stand up theatre performed by this hugely talented lady which looks at prejudice and inner demons. Liz works in that nether region where Art meets Comedy head on."
Critics Choice in TimeOut London (Aug 13-19th edition)
“A darkly comic mix of theatre and stand up.”
Time out london (August 7th-13th edition)
London Metro has given it four stars:
"Wheelchair user Liz Carr is an unflinching figure on the comedy circuit: she has also acted in plays and sparked column inches with her lively podcasts with Mat Fraser for the BBC's Ouch website. This semi-autobiographical play is an effective package: an introduction to her life and an entertaining snapshot of her caustic humour.
She plays Alex, who wants to be a stand-up but wrestles continuously with the prejudices of others and the defeatist side of her own personality, the latter depicted at a puppet perched precariously on the edge of a slide as if about to fall off a precipice.
Carr is dynamic around the set and incorporates other characters as pre-recorded voices. And when there are technological glitches, as on the first night, Carr's confidence is proven further with quick-witted improvisation.
But this show actually rests on her incisive and often provocative writing. She uses words such as 'crip' and 'spaz' and rustles up some spiky self-assessments: 'I'm like a comic jalapeño - hard to swallow.' At one point, she wonders if she should have worked this all out in therapy. It's good news for us that she opted for a more public catharsis."
-Sharon Lougher, London Metro, 14/8/09
"This was not a straight forward comedy then. Not the one person show I had expected. No. This was a drama. A stunning, brilliant one. Highly thought provoking and at times explosively funny. It directly questioned us, the audience, our motives, our reasons for laughing. Or for not laughing. It was uncomfortable, wicked, mesmerising."
Disability Arts Online, November 2009
"Currently, there's a great show on, Liz Carr's It Hasn't Happened Yet. The marketing for AOD hardly pays decent tribute to the show that audiences get to see. Liz is not only a comedian who has spent a lifetime witnessing and privately finessing her comic skills, she's also one that went from comic newby to seasoned cynical stand up genius in just a few years.
Nothing is sacred with Liz Carr and Melbourne is seldom graced with a talent like hers. Her play, which tells the story of Alix tackling the mainstream as a crip jokester, is a finely hewed piece where theatre and standup are seamlessly interposed. It seems ironic that one of the best recently arrived comic talents of the UK is not going to earn the plaudits of any of the queer, straight, street, art or community press. You guys suck so badly for not having your ear to the ground. But it's your loss not ours.
To Liz Carr, a talent that we are all going to know about soon, and some of us were there when... SALUT."
Art of Difference blogspot, reviewing It Hasn't Happened Yet.
“one of the best pieces of disability theatre I have seen in a long time.” “incredibly powerful”
“a refreshing perspective not seen before.”
“ a great way of opening the debate about who and how disability comedy is delivered.”
“Liz breaks comedy boundaries with this show and I’m still laughing just thinking about it.”
“If you’ve never heard a fish disability joke then this play is a must for you.”
“Liz shows us that behind closed doors the world of comedy is truly a disabling world - discriminating, frightening, yet hilariously funny.”
Tanya Raabe caught the preview of Liz Carr’s first one woman play, It Hasn’t Happened Yet, at Arena Theatre Wolverhampton.
“Liz Carr's first outing as a playwright has definitely set her on the starting rung of the Becket ladder.”
“To say this is a bitter sweet production is an understatement, more like a mix of bile and laughing gas.”
“One minute she had the audience rocking with side-splitting laughter the next doubled up in excruciating gut-wrenching guilt.”
“Liz knows no fear; meeting uncomfortable issues head on she strikes with the speed of an Asp juggling our emotions in an almost intolerable way.”
“This is not the last you are going to hear of Liz Carr, comedian, poet, philosopher and considering that this is her first attempt at scriptwriting, brilliant playwright.”
Roger Cliffe-Thompson, reviewing It Hasn't Happened Yet, Contact Theatre Saturday 24th November 07.
“one of the most original, and definitely the funniest piece of disability theatre I've seen in years.”
“Liz's performance was a unique and at times shockingly hilarious piece of storytelling.”
Liz Carr's It hasn't happened yet. http://www.disabilityarts.org/site/Editors_blog_blog?p=2
“There are some engaging talents on show. Liz Carr, in particular, is a briskly cynical Courage, beadily assessing the economic benefits to herself of the latest turn of events in the War through which she journeys and from which she makes her living. The quickness of her mental calculation is matched only by the speed of her electric wheelchair, which here replaces Mother Courage’s iconic handcart.”
www.reviewsgate.com reviewing Mother Courage 2003
“The part could have been written for Liz Carr, who coolly dominates the stage from her wheelchair. She is both fierce and vulnerable.”
The Stage review of Mother Courage, July 2003
“There’s nothing wrong with Liz Carr’s playing of a protagonist whose folly is to wander Europe’s battlefields, battening off the war and being destroyed by it. A tiny, truculent figure in her wheelchair, she’s especially effective at the famous moment when having failed to offer a large enough bribe to save him, she must listen to the firing squad as it executes her son, “I think I bargained too long,” she says, her pale face wizened with dread.”
