Joyce Grenfell inspired her, she wrote her own musical at school and a fringe theatre show with Julie Walters paved the way to TV fame. As Victoria Wood's Talent returns, we revisit her early stage years Anyone who has watched her in Dinnerladies or receiving a standing ovation at the Royal Albert Hall might doubt it, but Victoria Wood was quite shy. "One of her defences against being shy was to be funny," says theat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48AM on June 9, 2021