Life Of Liz: I Met A Lot Of People And Had A Lot of Strange Experiences

Producer Liz is back on the air this week with a special announcement… she’s putting on a Fringe show! t’s called Playworn - a comedy inspired by the last few years of her life, where she grappled with a shock diagnosis and somehow wound up selling miniature diecast model cars on the internet. You can catch Playworn at the State Theatre Centre of WA from Wednesday 4 to Sunday 8 February.Tickets are available now at fringeworld.com.au.Tune in for all the details!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
The Life of Liz, which is about to become a
stage show.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Is it a musical god at the moment? No?

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Okay, Liz, Welcome to the studio, Liz. Yes, and you
have put together a show for Fringe.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Yes, my first ever. So it's a bit nerve racking,
but I'm very excited. We'll tell us all about it,
so believe it or not. I've not always worked in radio.
I have backstory here and when I interviewed for this job,
I had to tell them my last job was selling
a deceased estate of miniature toy cars on the internet.
It's very specific, it is, and there's a very specific

(00:42):
type of buyer of which there's a few listeners that
actually I.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
Have sold two and this big money and it isn't that.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Huge money in it? And I'm very interesting. And I
did that full time for six months, and I met
a lot of people and I had a lot of
strange experiences, and I figured there was something in it.
So I caught up with a friend's sister who's a director,
and I told her about it and she's like, let's
make a show. So we're making a show and it's autobiographical,
but it's a little bit fictional too, and it's sort
of about my life over the last couple of years.

(01:09):
And I think it'll be funny, maybe a little bit sad,
mainly funny.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Are we in it?

Speaker 2 (01:16):
I actually Russell might be doing some voiceover work. Maybe.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Oh, that's right. You did approach me. You wanted me
to be like a DJ.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
So maybe Russell might hear Russell in it.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
You asked me to come up with a couple of names,
Yes you did. Sorry, I did. Uh, DJ PayPal, DJ PayPal.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
There's already a DJ.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
PayPal, DJ Dadbod I like that. Like that, that's your
DJ name apparently. Okay, Well, I don't know. I've just
been I was given homework go and find a name
for your character.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
Audio, So you're welcome to I'll have to think of
a DJ name.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
I like Petty LaBelle.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Oh that's fun, sort of a drag drag queen maybe, yes,
but yeah, it works for anything.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
So this is a show basically about your life, which,
as we know, is a event slightly unusual life at
times over the last couple of years.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
Yes, so I won't give away too much, but I
got I got a medical diagnosis a few years ago
that mainly older people would get. And it's sort of
like I had to sort of grasp the idea of
death and mortality. And a lot of the people I
was selling cars to they're either dead and I'm selling
the collection, or they are, you know, a bit older.
So I think I had a lot of common in

(02:34):
common with them, and we sort of connected on that level.
So it sort of about my life, but about their
lives and about connection through cars, little tiny cars of
the minuture variety, beautiful.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
Matchbox connections connection.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
Yeah. Yeah. Are they all matchbox cars?

Speaker 1 (02:50):
No?

Speaker 2 (02:51):
I don't actually do a lot of matchbox Oh okay,
Italian handbuilt Alpha romeos. I'm particularly drawn to the death vehicles,
like hears a coroner's vehicle.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Okay, it's just a particular affection you have.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
That's my sort of thing. But you can get anything.
I have a yogurt or like a yogurt van from
a yogurt Toad of France nineteen sixty seven, one of
those promotional vans that go around the toad to France.
You can get anything.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
Wow, goodness. And this is all going to be made
into a stage show.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Well, we can't wait. When when will it be on
It is on from the fourth of February to the
eighth of February at the State Theater Center. Where can
we book through Fringe world dot com dot au. And
actually we haven't even said the name of the show.
So the show is it's called playworn, and that is
when something has been taken out of the box and
it's used and it's damaged and it's not as valuable.

(03:42):
So it's a metaphor playworn, Yes, really playworn.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
There you go, there's another episode of It's not used.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
It's not a metaphorm.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
She's been out of the wrapping box for quite some time.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
We can't wait, Liz. Thank you, thanks for having the.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
Wife of Liz coming to a stage near you in
February for French World. Get your tickets.