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Aggiss’ mission here is not to shock……It does, however, serve the valuable function of making the easily-forgotten visible. Age, utillity, gender politics and what Julia Louis-Dreyfuss recently described as ‘fuckability’ are subjects open to discussion and dissection in this joyful floor show, with a side order of spangled flapper dresses and a generous helping of comic relief
Lisa Smith (londondance.com 24 April 2015)
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Aggiss, flashing her thighs as she shimmies and struts and tells us she is now 60, is one of those glorious wild cards who grounds her eccentricities in a bedrock of serious cultural and social information – all astutely accrued over years of creating, performing and teaching. Aggiss has never dodged away from putting herself, under scrutiny and the gaze of others, and this solo performance gets its claws into you – you laugh at the time, but afterwards you realise how moving and honest it was.
Mary Brennan (Herald Scotland Feb 4 2014)
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To say that Liz is unafraid would be an understatement. The English Channel is an inspiring irreverent clever solo performance that looks at age, beauty and being seen and very definitely heard.
Zoe Parker (Culturevulture.com, June 9 2013)
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The English Channel is a celebration of defiance, of not sitting down quietly, of asserting an identity that refuses to be categorized……….Aggiss’ ability to resist transparency, to evade being easily boxed…..and in doing so she is constantly deconstructing what it is to be a woman, to be a certain age, a performer, watcher or watched. Aggiss never fails to amuse, bemuse and generally reassure that there is still place for profundity coming out of a sheer outrageous confirmation of being alive.
Laura Burns (Exeunt Magazine Feb 8 2014)
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English Channel features an idiosyncratic appropriation of Too Drunk to Fuck that interjects the Dead Kennedys punk into Nouvelle Vague rhythms. It takes the juxtaposition of the two styles into the reinterpretation of the song, that sees a very agile Aggiss jump from an over toxicated women to one that’s perfectly sober but shattered and equally not in the mood. Rather than using it as a gimmick, Aggiss employs Too Drunk to Fuck to go where not much of pop culture has gone: a place where a woman over 50 can still be sexual, active, picky and indeed drunk.
Bojana Jankovic (Exeunt Magazine 26 September 2014)
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She’s the queen of postmodern performance – and there sure is a lot of that about, but the difference between Queen Liz and so many of those who followed in her footsteps is the skill and the love – her work is chock-full of allusions, a pick-n-mix from a hundred years of high and low art and popular culture, and there is certainly irony and humour, but we feel the respect, note the knowledge, admire the very clever interweaving of references. More than the sum of its parts, is this.
Dorothy Max Prior (Total Theatre Magazine, November 2014)
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5 stars……..this is a many spangled one finger to the ageing process and mortality–and a shout out to spirited females everywhere. She wears her eccentricities wilfully–and she’s hilarious and badass. She’s performance artist, go-go dancer and bouffon, but with the grace of a ballet coryphée and spit of punk. And today, us old women over 40 who refuse to settle down, plus a new audience of young kids, fell a little bit in love with her.
Lorne Irvine (Across the Arts 27 August 2015)
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Meticulously constructed and perfectly polished but playing entirely by its own rules The English Channel is imbued with a sort of crazy, magnificent wildness. Gerry Harris Drama Queens Review 5/12/15
http://dramaqueensreview.com/2015/12/09/old-dears-at-the-chelsea-theatre-london-november-2015-part-1/
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