Maggie Kirkpatrick

Maggie Kirkpatrick: (on reruns of 'Prisoner' and the musical) To be honest, I'd really rather have put the whole thing to bed in 1986 when the show ended, but the powers that be don't let that happen. The just keep replaying it, and because I don't get any replay fees, or any residuals for those sales all over the world, I just think, well, this is my turn to make a quid out of it. So I'm perfectly happy to go and do the musical which is absolute shlock but great fun. I mean, who can knock an hour and a half on stage every night with people screaming with laughter? It's great fun.

Maggie Kirkpatrick: (on fans) I like to be able to leave the theatre and then go to whatever club or wherever and have a drink with my mates and not be pestered. Fortunately that doesn't matter in Australia because, as you well know, if ever I go to any places along Oxford Street it's just 'oh, that's her'. Which is fine because I am as known to the gay community for doing other things than 'Prisoner'.

Maggie Kirkpatrick: (on performing with UK crossover drag legend, Lily Savage in the high camp, tribute piss-take of 'Prisoner') It was heaven. He's so wicked, and clever and I kind of learned to be a straight feed to a comic in that show, because I never quite knew what he was going to do next. He's the master of ad lib. Off he would go on a tangent and I would just deal with that, never trying to compete with that sort of rare comedy, but perhaps just adding to it just by the look. Then he'd veer right back to a cue that was necessary, so I was quite happy to go along with that, and knowing I could get a laugh with just a look was quite gratifying. It was a lot of laughs on and off the stage. We were like a pair of naughty kids together. I had to come home and give my liver a rest!