Maureen Lipman on taking her one-woman play ROSE about racism and immigration to the West End and her creation of a modern-day Ena Sharples
Dame Maureen Lipman is certainly not short of content on the old CV, having had an illustrious career on stage and screen for more than half a century. But, right now, at the age of 77, she is at the absolute peak of her game.
She might have to defend it from tedious snobbery – taxi drivers often commiserate with her – but her role as Evelyn Plummer, the razor-sharp battle axe with the most sublime, withering one-liners in Coronation Street history, has seen her create a soap legend of the sort they don’t make any more. In contrast, she us also playing a Holocaust survivor Martin Sherman’s one-woman play, Rose, which transfers to the West End next week.